University Daily Kansan
7
Wednesday, March 7,1973
EDITOR'S NOTE-Is there any way out of the energy crisis? Yes, but not without a lot of effort—and higher prices. The solutions to what many regard as the nation's most urgent problem are discussed in this installment of a four-nart series.
Compromise to Flow from Energy
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Associated Press Writer
By HOWARD BENEDICT
By HOWARD BENEDICT
There is plenty of energy in the world, enough to last for centuries. Yet, the United States finds itself an energy bind that can be disrupted by a revision of policies at home and abroad.
The road out will be paved by picking the pockets of the consumer, increasing industry profits, scrapping antiquated regulations like oil import quotas and investing more to find new energy sources. The consumer will feel the pinch as an era
Examples, as estimated by Wall Street analysts are these:
- Regular grade auto gasoline, which sold an average 31 gallon a gallon five years ago,
- Premium gasoline.
rise another one or two cents by summer.
—The price of natural gas could double
—The price of natural gas could double
paying $1.0 million would pay $2.9 in 1975
paying $1.0 million would pay $2.9 in 1975
The cost of fuel oil could increase 20 per cent in three years. A customer in the northern United States who paid $150 for a winter's wincup would then pay $180.
—the price of electricity might rise 34 per cent and储蓄 an average monthly bill of $0.90 per month.
After ignoring years of warnings, the federal government is awakening to the problem. President Nixon is to unveil a new energy policy soon.
Industry and government sources say Nikon's new policy will make sweeping changes. They predict it will call for higher prices for crude oil and crude oil products, decontrol of at least some natural gas prices, an increase in import quotas and a reduction in using programming to drilling off the Atlantic coast for the first time.
The message, the sources report, is ex-
City to Insure Safety At Art Exhibit in Park
By C.C. CALDWELL Kansan Staff Writer
The Lawrence City Commission Tuesday declined approving a request to close Massachusetts Street along South Park during the upcoming Art in the Park display but took other measures to provide for the children of who will have exhibits there.
The request has been submitted by Art in the Park chairman Marilyn Brown. Her husband, Robert B. Brown, spoke on behalf of the proposal.
"When we get a bunch of children down
in an institution to disaster that we could eliminate."
Brown expressed concern over children who would be participating in the show this year. He said the request was not for them to use the buses, but soley for the safety of the children.
THE COMMISSIONERS said that it would be difficult to establish criteria for law enforcement vehicles. The problem posed in this case is the need for emergency vehicles to maintain access to Lawrence's main street at all times, according to police and fire department officials.
Commissioner Nancy Hambleton said
After Long Rain, Sunny Weather Expected Today
Residents of Lawrence might get to see the sun today.
After six days of rainy and muddy conditions, the National Weather Service finally predicts sunny skies and warmer temperatures for the Lawrence area.
Nearly two inches of rainfall were recorded during the first six days of the month. The six-day total of 1.92 inches was of the 2.2 inch monthly average for March.
Fortunately, the rain fell in a steady
tickle and not a sudden dowfall, so that
the water was moving slowly.
Flash flood warnings were issued by the State Weather Bureau in Topeka early Monday, but the warnings were cancelled before noon on Tuesday.
No flooding was reported in the Lawrence area.
The National Weather Service forecast calls for partly cloudy skies today and Thursday. The high today will be in the high 50s and the low overnight should be in the 30s. No precipitation is expected before Friday.
that only once in the past two years had a
purposes and that that had a side step,
and that that had a side step.
pected to propose opening more government lands to oil exploration and more funds to develop new energy sources from such things as nuclear, solar and geothermal power. It also is expected to endorse a centralized authority to manage the national energy system, mostly by 5 federal agencies and departments each fulfilling its own narrow mission.
Hambleton said the city would like to help in other ways. The provision of guards and the possibility of roping off part of the potentially hazardous area were discussed.
No one will be completely satisfied with the message. Consumers won't like higher prices on gasoline, heating and electricity. Environmentalists won't like more offshore drilling and new refineries and deep ports for supertankers. Many oil companies won't increase oil imports and probably closer government scrutiny of their operations.
Upon a motion by Fisher, the commissioners unanimously agreed to provide for guards and the channeling of pedestrian traffic. The new park will be swalks at North Park, and South Park. Street
The commission also unanimously adopted resolutions ordering the construction of streets and sidewalks in designated portions of Heatherwood Addition, including installation of sidewalls on W. 27th Terrace, W. 28th Street, and W. 28th Terrace.
SIDEWALK ALSO were a part of Tuesday's meeting. The commission unanimously adopted a resolution setting a public bearing for 2 p.m. March 20 pertaining to the installation of sidewalks from the street mark streets on both sides of Massachusetts.
COMMISSIONER Hambleton observed that part of the adjacent area is "an grass seeding field, would re-seed it with grass seeding and reference by tree Hambleton had reference to a nearby mud-covered sidewalk and fixed mechanical wheels while at the end of a tree line behind the edge.
The commission also approved a basic site plan for K M & Decorating Company in the basement of the Hillcress Shopping Centre in its exceptional action for aesthetic considerations.
The site plan provides for an eventual increase in net parking area of 17 spaces.
—approved a mayor's proclamation, presented by the Chairman of the Douglas County Board Association's Committee on Budgetary Allocated May 1 as "law Day," in Lawrence.
—granted permission for a 12-inch encroachment to Jenkins Music Company for a fire escape, which will permit the compartmentation of an upper floor as a rectangular ball.
White House aide Peter Flanagan said the President's statement, still being formulated at a later date, included:
—Approved mayoral reappointments, attached to the mayor's meeting with county commissioners.
J. Thomas Adams, Mental Health Committee of City-County Health Board. Ross McKinney, Public Health Committee of City-County Health Board.
In concluding miscellaneous business, commissioner Fisher spoke to clarify the city's involvement in the recent water department shortage-of-funds case.
Keith Rogers, Board of Electrical Examiners.
The alternative could be a deepening energy crisis that could hamper America's economic growth and deter industry from developing and communities from developing.
Fisher said, "The city discovered the discrepancy through a normal audit" and the case was subsequently turned over to the city's commission for investigation, terminating the city's involvement.
The petroleum industry and some congressmen have sounded alarm of a summer gasoline shortage unless something is done. This prompted govern-ment leaders to declare an emergency distribution plans and raised talk of wartime style fuel rationing, which Nixon's plan
America's proven oil reserves, including the rich Alaskan fields whose production awaits building of a controversial pipeline, are estimated to equal only a 10 to 12 year supply at current rates of consumption. Oil resources, including those off the Atlantic coast, can supply 30 years, also at the current use, which is expected to triple by the year 2,000.
is designed to head off.
LILIES OF THE FIELD WE ARE NOT.
Because of the growing dependence on foreign oil, Nixon's fiscal 1974 budget requests $722 million for research into new energy sources. That's up from $642 million in a budget where many federal programs are being pared.
Natural gas played a key role in this winter's energy crunch. Clean air regulations had encouraged more and more gas use, but coal and oil to gas which pollutes less.
Suddenly there was a shortage of natural gas in some areas.
been using natural gas twice as fast as it has been finding it, and the forecast is that unless new reserves are found, the supply will be gone within a few years.
On the other hand, the United States has an abundance of coal-between one-fifth and one-half of all the recoverable bituminous coal and lignite believed to exist in the earth. It's one billion tons. Experts say that's enough to supply U.S. energy needs for perhaps 500 years.
Crisis
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But coal's role is severely limited by environmental problems such as stripping and by pollution problems created by its high sulphur content. Technologists have tried to make the content and to extract gas from coal, but so far the processes tried are too expensive.
Another cause of the energy shortage is slowdown in the building of nuclear power plants, mainly because of a tough new set of environmental standards laid down by Congress and because construction has been more complicated than envisioned.
Tomorrow; the effects on you, the consumer.
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