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Monday, October 1. 1973
University Daily Kansan
Symposium: Tackling the Energy Crisis with Ideas
Energy, Environment Need to Compromise
By ERIC MEYER
Kanan Staff Reporter
Environmental groups must face the energy crisis and stop their opposition to off-shore drilling and the Alaskan pipeline. They also want more funding with the American Petroleum Institute.
He said "unreasonable litigation and sarcastic safety regulations" had delayed the agency's plans.
Environmental groups have been "unbending, uncompromising and unreasonable," Laird said Friday at the energy forum in the Forum Room of the Kansas
Laird is director of the exploration committee of the American Petroleum
"We must serve both energy and the environment," he said. "We must endorse multiple use of federal lands. Five and a half years after the discovery in Amorik oil, we will move to slope in Alaska, one drop of that oil has made its way to us in the United States."
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS also have stopped the licensing of nuclear power plants.
"The well-being of the country depends on domestic energy production," he said. "Oil remains a key resource and the value created by the shortcomings of other energy sources. But the mere mention of off-shore drilling gives rise to demagromes who wave pictures of oil from their islands."
Laird said there had been four major spills, none of which had caused lasting damage.
"Our hope for the future is nuclear energy," he said. "But that's still years away. Our petroleum resources must give us the breathing time necessary for the development of nuclear and other exotic fuels.
"IF LEIF ERICKSON and Christopher Columbus had to file (environmental) impact statements, they never would have discovered the New World."
Merrill Hass, vice president for exploration with Exxon Corp., said at the
Small Steps Save Energy, Experts Say
Individual sacrifice is necessary to conserve energy resources, Beatrice Willard, a member of the Council on Environmental Quality, said Friday.
Willard spoke at the afternoon session of the energy symposium in the Forum Room of the U.S. Embassy in Washington.
"If everyone would set their thermostats at 88 instead of 72 and wear a sweater in the winter, a substantial amount of energy could be conserved." Willard said.
Some businesses have reduced the amount of energy used by making several changes.
"Sears Roebuck has decided to turn off all display televisions and showcase lights. Bell Telephone has taken similar steps," Willard said.
"We do not need to solve the problem at the sacrifice of what we hold dear. Some of these small energy conserving measures may seem mundane, but if everyone makes a small sacrifice it's bound to have some effect."
Jerome Svore, regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, said at the symposium that Americans shouldn't suffer the excessive sacrifices to conserve energy.
"As an environmentalist, I want energy
from Sue's source." The problem is not what we
need.
"If we are to maintain our high standard of living we must look to other fuels for the long run. But we must discover these other fuels, while we still have coal, oil and natural gas."
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"By shifting intercity freight from highway to rail, a great deal of fuel can be saved. Freight trains use one-tenth the fuel trucks do, but they only handle about half the total freight shipped in this country at present." Svore said.
THE FALL ELECTIONS ARE COMING
"They are without factual bases," he said. "That's what results when emotions are overloaded."
Hass said the energy shortage had been caused by the nation's demand for energy
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He attributed at least part of the problem to "unrealistically low prices" imposed on manufacturers.
forum that stories that the energy shortage was an artificial one were "delusions."
The price ceiling has stimulated the demand for natural gas and has reduced the profit incentive for investing in natural gas production, he said.
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"WE MUST develop a national sense and purpose about energy." Hass said, "First, we must make sure that our energy supply. Second, we must encourage efficient use of our available energy. And, third, we must see that a reasonable investment and national security is maintained."
He urged unification of agencies currently dealing with the energy problem, allowance for a higher rate of return on energy exploration, permission to use federal lands and operation of free-market and demand in determining fuel prices.
John Emerson, chief energy economist for the Chase Manhattan Bank, agreed that greater rates of return must be made to encourage oilroleum investment becomes viable again.
"To an industrialized nation," he said, "it seems to me that there can be no higher priority than producing the energy that fuels our industry.
"Investor confidence has been badly shaken by the inordinate delay in approval of off-shore drilling and the Trans-Alaska Agreement, an essential issue if we are to endure this problem."
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Sen, Clifford Hansen Addresses Symposium
Speaks Against Energy Price Cellings as Sen, Robert Labell looks on.
The energy situation will be critical during the next 10 to 15 years until exotic forms of energy conversion such as coalification have been perfected, Hansen said.
Oil Supply Essential In Attempt for Peace
Seff. Clifford P. Hansen, R-Wyo., said here Friday that an abundant supply of energy in America was necessary for world peace and that he supported the elimination of price restraints on gasoline and oil to ensure that there would be an abundance.
Hansen, a member of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, addressed about 200 people in the ballroom of the Kansas State Capitol on Thursday at a banquet that followed a day-long symposium on national energy policy sponsored by the Kansas Geological Survey.
"I want America to have the leverage and clustery necessary to continue the great program that has been started in trying to bring about a generation of peace." Hansen
If we would ask why President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were welcomed into Russia and China, Hansen said, they would say it was because the country is a hard, basic. Basic to that power is an abundant supply of energy in our control, he said.
"I WOULD JUST SAY that if we're going to continue the official role that hopefully can mean a subsidence of fear and an extension of peace, we should take steps to shore up our energy reserves here in Michigan." Mr. Weil said we can back our word," Hansen said.
He said one thing that could stimulate such an increase in energy reserves was to raise the price of domestic natural gas and oil.
t of my contention," "of oil and gas" because an natural force the market." Hansen said that American companies with a double challenge of trying to improve the quality of life and seeing that they didn't assume a secondary role in world affairs.
"I THINK THE LARGEST single problem in the energy crisis is that the whole thing is literally beyond the com- mission of Americans and leaders," he said.
America has always had a surplus economy, Hansen said, and consequently Americans find it difficult to deal with shortages.
"More people need to turn out the lights they don't need," said Hansen. "If oil and gas cost more we would have the incentive to do just that. It is a good way to discourage waste. Also it would create the expectancy of a profit."
According to Hansen, the energy crisis won't be turned around until the people in the business, such as independent oil dealers, can expect a profit.
**WHAT AMERICANS SHOULD have been doing, Hansen said, was to see what the people in the energy business knew about him. He said that the term as governor of Wyoming he had learned that a good way to pass effective laws is to make the people who would be regulated by it.**
Concerning price ceilings on energy Hansen said, "From what I know about federal leadership, that would be the poorest answer to the problem."
"That's what we didn't do," he said. "In those days we added to the illusion that every oilman is a millionaire, and were paying for it today."
Hansen said he was frightened by a statement by Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., that energy shortages created a conspiracy by imposing higher prices on the consumer.
HANSEN WAS INTRODUCED at the banquet by Dekan-Dokkan K-Man, a former officer was Dokkan and director emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey, for whom the survey's new building
Hansen called Moore a great credit not only to America but to mankind as well. He said Moore's name was honored among educators the world over.
Attitudes, Education Seen As Energy Crisis Solution
Altered attitudes, education and a game plan from the Nixon administration are the keys to solving the energy crisis, according to one study by the Energy Department for the Federal Office of Energy Policy.
The symposium was sponsored by the Kansas Geological Survey in conjunction with the dedication ceremonies Friday of Ravmond C. Moore Hall.
McKevitt spoke in place of Gov. Robert Ray of Iowa at a Friday luncheon of the National Energy Policy symposium at the University of Kansas.
"There's a need mainly for open minds, open attitudes and open discussion about these issues."
He called on educators and the press to change public attitudes about problems in education.
He mentioned a special course on energy
At Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and an NBD documentary titled, "Where Do We Go from Here?" as methods of discovering the country about energy problems.
McKevitt said that some congressmen had used the energy crisis as a stepping stone to re-election or election to a higher office.
"There's a lot of deep concern about the energy problem, but there's also a lot of fun with it."
Better communication is needed between Congress and the Nixon administration to reach an agreement.
"Other issues come and go, but energy's going to here for a long time," he said. "A game plan for the administration is needed as well."
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