*Favors oil decontrol. Voted for Carter's standby gas rationing plan in May 1979.

*Supports windfall profits tax.

*Best known for his proposed 50-cents-a-gallon tax on gasoline. Supports development of solar power.

*Supports nuclear power, with reservations until safety conditions improve.

*Supports a separate Department of Energy.

*Does not support easing environmental restrictions to allow burning of higher sulfur coal.

*Would introduce national program of water conservation.

Carter

*Favors oil decontrol.

*Favors windfall profits tax.

*Has called energy crisis the moral equivalent of war" and favors higher gasoline tax by 10 cents a gallon as conservation move.

*Wants to minimize dependence on nuclear power and considers it a source of last resort.

*Established Department of Energy and increased funding for solar energy projects. Set up program to intensify research into synthetic fuels.

*Does not support easing environmental restrictions to allow burning of high sulfur coal.

*Favors preserving Alaska's wilderness.