But it was the title of "energy czar" that got the most attention, during the period of OPEC embargoes and gas rationing in the 1970s.

The next man to board was Hansen, the President's energy czar.

It was the perfect story-book setting for a day which, the President and Hansen, his energy czar, devoutly hoped would have a story-book ending.

He snatched a plate and said that as the energy czar he needed energy.

He said: 'John Hansen, your energy czar.

John Arthur Love, a former Republican governor of Colorado and energy czar in the Nixon administration, died on Monday.

As deregulation continues its slow creep from state to state, corporate energy czars are rising to prominence at companies that do not have energy-intensive manufacturing.

In pursuing this task, he came to be known as the country's energy czar and was more powerful than many Cabinet ministers.

He was too efficient an energy czar, making a bad policy -price controls on oil - run relatively unbadly.

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