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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 20, 1974
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Energy . . .
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Dick Challinor, public relations director of the Federal Energy Office (FEO) in Kansas City, Mo., said that even with the embargo lifted, the United States would still suffer from an energy crisis for at least 10 to 14 more years.
He said the main thing that aggravated the energy crisis was the huge difference between what Americans would like to have and the material goods and what was actually needed.
Challiner said that if the Emergency Energy Act was passed by Congress, a new FEO division would be created to explore for new energy sources. No new energy sources have been discovered in the United States for 10 years, he said.
The division, which would be called Research and Development, would hire geologists and others who are experts in mining and the development of solar energy.
He said, "There is no energy resource that we have in commercial use today that
Ernest Angino, professor of geology, said that besides the shortage in crude oils and natural gas, there was a shortage in mineral resources.
"Few people are paying attention to the mineral resources shortage and this shortage scares me more than the rest of the energy crisis."
The current shortage of steel, he said,
should have been a warning that mineral-
ization could be a risk.
Angino also said that the United States was coming closer to the period when it would have to recycle material for its mineral resources. He said, however, that recycling wasn't possible without a cost to the taxaver.
The shortage of crude oil and other forms of energy is being complicated by the consumer's great dependence on them, Preston said.
"The energy crisis is just like heroin addiction," he said. "This society is hooked
Consumers must the existing energy supply, Angino said, and Americans will have to change their lifestyles if the United States is to get out of the energy crisis.
"Setting thermostats at 68 degrees would really help," he said. "Air conditioning can really make a big difference in energy consumption also. We will have to learn to set our air conditioners at a higher temperature."
Public transportation must make a comeback if the energy crisis was to be缓解.
HAMBLETON SAID THAT the United
KU Skylab Data Called Useless
Many of the data from the last Skylak mission given to University of Kansas scientists were garbled because of faulty instrumentation in center Houston, according to Richard K. Moore, director of KU's remote sensing laboratory and professor of electrical engineering.
Moore said yesterday that many of the data recorded on tapes from the mission were useless because technicians in the mission translated them properly on their computers.
"Out of 17 data tapes received from Houston," he said, "only one was any good. The data processing system out at Houston is terrible."
He said that other projects for the remote sensing laboratory were still only in the planning stage and that he couldn't discuss them.
Because so many data from the Skylab mission were useless, Moore said, there may not be many more space program projects.
"They're probably going to have to extend our contract at least one more year," he said. "It'll take that long to get the rest of our data."
The S-183 Radscat, the instrument that collected the data aboard Skylab, was used to measure meteorological characteristics of the earth. Moore said in a report to the House subcommittee on manned space flight.
Data from Radcast, the report said, can determine wind speed on the earth's surface, pinpoint heavy rain cells and perhaps identify moist moisture, snowpack and types of vegetation.
The report said Radscat consisted of a scatterometer to determine wind speed, a radiemeter to correct the wind speed measurement for light rain and clouds to point heavy rain cells and an altimeter to measure altitude.
Moore said his report was one of several made to the House subcommittee, which was conducting a hearing on Skylab program results.
States had been mismanaged into an oil shortage by the government, announced earlier.
CONSUMER WORKSHOP
He said the office was required by regulations to reallocate available crude oil from the oil fields in the United States would receive equitable amounts of oil. This disrupted the natural flow of crude oil from Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, where more oil than they could efficiently refine.
Challier denied that FEO had mismanaged its handling of the energy crisis. He said Congressional regulations required that states flexibly in its response to the energy crisis,
HOWEVER, NEW FEDERAL regulations should stop this problem, Challier said. The regulations allow for normal distribution of crude oil to the refineries and make it vulnerable to the refineries that can efficiently produce refined oil products.
Angino said some refineries couldn't refine the crude oil that was reallocated to them without ruining their refining equipment. He said that reallocation of crude oil was also interrupting the flow of production.
CONSUMER FRAUD
Refineries that were producing heating oil were receiving too much crude oil and many gasoline refineries had crude oil taken away. The result, Angino said, was that more heating oil than was needed was being produced and not enough gasoline.
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SOME OF THE LARGER refineries were operating at 100 to 110 per cent of their capacity. When they received their allocations of crude oil, they had to cut back their production to as little as 76 per cent and they weren't receiving enough crude oil.
Hambleton said that when the federal government fixed the price of native crude oil at the wellhead, the oil companies' incentive to explore for oil was lost.
The price of foreign crude oil isn't fixed and cap on as high as the market allows.
"PRICE FIXING MADE the available supply of oil very cheap, but it soon was exhausted!" Hambleton said. "To fix the problem, we need a supply to remain the same is ridiculous."
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Angino said that the United States couldn't solve the energy crisis by decreasing the price of oil. Instead, he said the value of oil products should be reflected in energy bills.
The experts agreed that oil companies would have to make greater profits if they stopped buying the oil beige.
Preston said the oil companies were getting less return on their investments
"Investment people have been bailing out of oil because it has not been giving a normal rate of return until the last quarter of 1973," he said.
Angino said that the public didn't realize what it cost to discover oil.
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HE SAID IT could take several million dollars to build an offshore oil rig before any of the sanctions are lifted.
one million dollars to operate an oil rig each day
The experts also said price fixing had caused a shortage of oil refineries in the United States. They said oil companies must have set prices for the United States to escape price fixing.
Environmental protection laws also have contributed to the energy crisis, Hambleton said. He said that environmental groups of the Alaska pipeline for five years.
It will be about five years before the Alaska pipeline is in operation, according to the energy experts. They also said that refineries to produce the Alaskan oil will take three to five years to be built after their sites have been approved.
"BY PROTECTING THE consumer, the government helped to create the oil shortage," he said. "Who wanted to use coal when natural gas was cleaner and cheaper? So natural gas was used as if there was no end."
NEW SOURCES OF energy to replace dependence on oil must be found before the United States can get out of the energy crisis, the experts said.
Conversion to nuclear energy isn't possible at this time, they said, because the problem of radioactive wastes will have to be addressed. The United States can convert to nuclear energy.
Angiino said there would be a conversion to coal for a long time while other after-effects would be less significant.
If there is a concerted effort by the government, energy companies and consumers the energy crisis can be solved, Angino said. He said it was possible for the United States to become self-sufficient in energy production by 1985.
DURING THE CURRENT energy shortage the FEO is trying to equally distribute the available resources, said Challier.
Preston said the FEO was not assiduously working to solve long range energy problems.
"The FEO is just a new administrative device that is helping to distribute the existing energy shortage so that everyone is equally unhappy." he said.
The experts said that if the United States continued its present oil consumption of 4.5 trillion barrels per year, it would
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enough to alter their lifestyles to solve it. "If the United States is to mould through the energy crisis we are going to have to abstain its addiction an-energy." Preston said.
energy crisis but that they didn't care to alter their lifestyles to solve it.
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