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Tuesday, December 10, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Hambleton suggests commitment to conservation...
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come onto the market that are marginal users of energy," he said.
"The central issue is not the oil depletion allowance or the deregulation of natural gas," he said. "The central issue is the provision of a cost-effective, long-term method for providing energy to our economy."
"I THINK THE GOAL we need to work for is the ability to export petroleum products to the world, at least in some measureable quantities," he said. "Until we can do this, because this would be a small-scale excess in our current demand, we will
because it sees its reserves are beginning to exceed 50, greater imports can probably exacerbate the issue.
Hambleton said there had to be a national commitment to conserve energy. He said Americans could cut out a lot of energy use without really hurting anything.
He said there had been some reports of
"We're using energy foolishly," he said.
"We're still burning gasoline in big cars. We're still running people around one to a car. We still haven't engaged in a very vigorous effort to cut fuel demand in industry and homes."
Hambleton said alternate fuels were a definite possibility for the future. They may solve U.S. problems a decade from now, but they also need to solve the immediate problem, he said.
"By intensive exploration, we may be able to flatten out that curve a little bit, but I don't think we're going to see a reversal of it," he said.
WILLIAM J. EBANKS, research associate for the Kansas Geological Survey, said the energy problem was an economic challenge to natural resource-producing industry had.
"For a long time, the problem has been basically that we have not been finding enough new oil and gas in this country to meet the increases in domestic demand," he said.
"Oil and gas are just like minerals in the regard that they are depletable—they occur in finite quantities. That's the root of the whole problem."
"In my opinion, there is nothing we can do that can change what's happening. We no longer have to do the work in industry, the finite nature of the job and such that we are using it up so fast we can
find enough additional secure resources to replace it,"
A SURVEY BY the state geologist of Oklahoma recently revealed that the state's gasoline taxes are too high and said. Industry has claimed that all it needs is additional incentives and it will be able to find and produce more. The Oklahoma Department doesn't agree with that, Ebanks said.
an example. Despite the increase, production of crude oil in Kansas has declined from a peak in 1958 to now about half of what it was. He said he thought this was fairly typical for the region and the rest of the country.
He said the survey also said that if industry drilled many more wells there would be very little new production found. Replacing the natural gas production with
He said that the United States could move towards self-sufficiency, but that he didn't really see any way the United States could maintain self-sufficient in the foreseeable future.
Wyoming coal would be physically impossible, Ebanks said, because of the number of unit trains of coal that would be shipped to Sierra Nevada Oklahoma and Wyoming each day.
EBANKS SAID he had a great deal of faith in American technology,
We're in as bad shape as we were in last time. We're importing between six and seven billion barrels a day of crude oil and oil products.
"It it seems to me that '科学 and technology have come through every time we have needed them before and that's my call for the future. To be able to sit here and pass by the course of development is going to be is another thing. I can't do that."
Preston said if the Arabs embraced their oil again, the same thing would happen as did last year. He said this was because there was virtually nothing the United States could do to alleviate a shortage in the same time that the Arabs could create one.
be subject to political and economic nationals of the world that export petroleum.
EVEN IF THE COUNTRY adopted a national energy policy, the United States isn't going to be free from such political pressure for at least 15 to 25 years, Preston said. He said this period would be a very, crucial one.
"We've got to get our house in order by the year 2000 or we're really going to be out of it," Preston said. "Not until human behavior is changed to what it will have to be a precondition for the owners in the circumstances of resources, will we really have things all together."
"WE'RE IN JUST as bad shape as we were last time," he said. "We're importing somewhere between six and seven billion barrels a day of crude oil and products, and that kind of cutback is going to be exacerbated by more different than last time because the economies had better control of both production and distribution.
WILLIAM HAMBLETON, director of the Kansas Geological Survey and professor of geology, said, "In the near term, in the next five to 10 years, I think there are only two ways we can make a significant difference. One is conservation and the other is imports."
Hambleton said he didn't anticipate a substantial increase in domestic production of oil, gas and coal. If the Arabias embargo on the United States is in bad shape, he said.
HAMBLETON SAID the buil of U.S. oil imports didn't come from the Middle East but from Venezuela, Canada and Nigeria. It is one of the United States still faces problems in supply.
"Now, with the Arabs pretty much in command of the production, the companies are going to find it much more difficult to redistribute simulators than last time."
The Canadians are beginning to slowly constrict the amounts of both oil and gas they want to export, Hambleton said. Venezuela is cutting back production
declines in fuel use, particularly on the West Coast.
"As the recessionary trend hits and prices go up, the consumption is going to go down," Hambron said. "Industry, which has full production, will not use as much fuel."
"THINK INCREASED prices would, at least temporarily, cause people to be a little more careful in their use of gasoline and the aggregate effect has been one of some decline, which is simply an indication, to me, that if we embarked upon a serious effort, we could cut back consumption a great deal."
However, he said he didn't think price incentives would be enough to solve this energy supply problem. He cited the increase in price of crude oil in the Midwest as
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