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Tuesday, February 13, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Fina, 1819 W. 23rd St., said he stopped opening on Sunday three weeks ago.
"As soon as Carter said he'd like gas stations to close Sundays, I jumped to it."
But it was not so much patriotism as acting a day off that prompted him to choose the same one.
ALTHOUGH THE L-O-Ball station, 602 WNith St, does not yet close on Sundays, station manager Naori Menchis is interested in other ways to conserve gasoline.
Mensch said she thought car pooling would be the best way to conserve gas, so she posted a sign at the Lo-Ball station offering to organize carpools.
said she thought few people were really interested in saving gas.
Every newspaper story about an impending gas shortage has resulted in an increase in energy prices.
"People buy 75 cents or a dollar, topping off their tanks. They want to be sure they have a full tank in case there is a cutback, she said.
Bill Golns, a gasoline tank-truck driver for Farmer's Co-op, said his customers were high on a priority list and would not suffer from gasoline cutbacks.
ALTHOUGH FECW local gasoline dealers seem to be worried about the effect of a national shortage, the Farmer's Co-op Association seems the least concerned.
"I think they still'll get fuel for farmers.
They had better, or we won't eat," he said.
Commissioners to review plan for new hangars,lab
City commissioners will review a plan tonight for a combination hanger and engineering research laboratory, which would be located in the University of Kansas at Lawrence Airport.
The University wants to replace two hangars that are in bad condition and not suitable for research with a new 13,000-square-foot structure.
The building would house a testing lab for
the School of Engineering and would provide storage space for KU's aircraft.
The Kansas University Endowment Association originally owned the land where the building would be constructed but the building was not built when the land was deeded over to the city.
No starting date for construction has been set because the source of funds for the work is not known.
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"Industry can expect to be able to use natural gas in the summer," he said. "However, the five winter months it's used by industry will be controlled and a great deal."
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possible to deal with. Transportation by trucks and barges tends to be a lot more
Fuel...
Salome said the natural gas industry was experiencing problems similar to the oil industry, and rising prices could be exacerbating them. She said the gas industry began in the late 1960s.
SALOME SAID new natural gas reserves had been discovered in Alaska and Mexico and that the United States would soon make a deal with Mexico for use of their gas.
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"The federal government set extremely low prices and everyone in industry wanted to be the biggest buyers of natural gas price so low that people stopped drilling for it. The reserves started going down and not until the 70s were able to explore for oil on a large scale again."
"We're by far Mexico's best customer," he said. "As much as they are producing, we're just making a lot of money."
AS PART OF an effort to deal with that gas shortage, Salome said, KU's rating had been changed under the National Emergency Act of 1978. That act was passed by Congress to deal with possible future natural gas shortages, he said.
Salome also said he had heard of a possible plan for a waste burning plant for the University to help alleviate problems caused by natural gas cut offs.
"The government wanted to make sure that residential and small commercial units were well equipped."
would have natural gas available to heat their homes and offices," he said.
Salome said that under this act, the government urged industrial and other heavy users of gas to switch to alternative sources of energy.
Salome said that despite the increased availability of gas today, because industry was using other fuels for heat there was not an advantage of the temporary glass glut remaining.
"These heavy users can live with the oil, but oil is 50 to 60 percent more expensive than gasoline."
Salome said rising drilling costs were a major reason natural gas users could expect to see increased prices.
THE RATES can be expected to go up 40 to 50 percent in the next three to five years." Salome said. "In six to seven years gas will have reached its market value."
Salome said that even though prices would be rising, the amount of gas available for use by residential and small commercial users would remain the same for the next 40 to 50 years. And industrial users, like KU, would not change any change in the current situation either.
deeper to get gas now. It also takes nine months to dig a well. If a reserve is found the reserve will be large and the new find will pay for the drilling costs, which run up to $1 million a well. However, if you don't find any gas, there's a lot of money wasted."
"THEERE'S a great deal more exploration work being done today," he said. "The gas is available now, but any excess there is now will be used up in a year and we'll have the same problems of shortages that we've had before."
Salome said that because natural gas prices were rising, more companies were moving to the state.
City Service received an increase, effective Jan. 23, that allowed it to raise its rates from 18 to 17 percent. However, coal prices have dropped and electricity is priced three times higher.
The gas that is being discovered now is coming from deeper wells," Salome said. "It's so important to keep the water clean."
"We'd hate to lose the University as a customer," he said. "Natural gas would still be cheaper and is easily transported to campus, but we don't have to go using everything available in the future to help their energy needs. The waste burning plant could help."
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