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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1974
'WE JUST GOT A MESSAGE FROM THE TAXPAYERS — FROM NOW ON YOU CAN CARRY
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Energy office explains
gasoline distributions
WASHINGTON <A>> _ The lat
est Federal Energy Office effort
to smooth out February’s gasoline
distribution has given 20 states
more gasoline, but its effect on
service station lines is unclear.
Here, in question and answer
form, is the latest — if not neces
sarily final-word as explained by
FEO officials:
Q. You’ve lost me already.
What was supposed to happen in
February in the first place?
A. February was supposed to
be the first month in which gaso
line, and some other petroleum
products, were distributed from
refineries to suppliers, to dealers
and sometimes to customers ac
cording to a new set of federal
regulations.
The purpose was to provide a
fair distribution during the pres
ent shortage.
Farming, on which the nation
depends for food, was to get all of
the gasoline it required, before
anyone else was served.
Certain essential services which
purchase gasoline in bulk quanti
ties were also to get all they need,
while others including service sta
tions were to get as much gaso
line as in February 1972; but
those allocations w o u 1 d be re
duced, if necessary, in proportion
to the shortage.
Q. Yes, I remember now, but
I sort of forgot all that while I
was waiting in line an hour at the
service station yesterday.
A. Well, you see, there was
one little hitch in the program.
The regulation was not designed
for getting equal amounts of gas
oline to all of the dealers or areas
or anything like that.
The allocations were to be car
ried out by each individual oil
company, based on its own supply
of gasoline.
Some companies were in better
shape than others: some served
certain areas more heavily than
others. The Federal Energy Of
fice says the February allocation
would have reflected historical
distribution patterns, with some
imbalances resulting from area to
area.
Q. But I thought that energy
office told all the states exactly
how much they would get in Feb
ruary. I read it someplace.
A. That’s right. Last Feb. 6,
the energy office gave newsmen
a 55-page computer print-out list
ing the gasoline going to each
state. They represented it, at
first, as the official allocation.
It turns out, however, that it
was not an official allocation, but
only the oil companies’ estimates
of what was heading for each
state; and the FEO now says
those estimates were largely in
accurate.
Q. Well, what are they going
to do about it?
A. They sent special study
teams into 20 states that seemed
to have particularly tough prob
lems of gasoline supply, to check
those estimates, and energy chief
William E. Simon said Tuesday
study teams would be sent to all
50 states.
Q. Which states, under the Feb.
9 order, may or may not get any
where from nothing to two per
cent more in February?
A. Arkansas, Delaware, the
District of Columbia, Kentucky,
Maine, Mississippi, North Caro
lina, Texas and Tennessee.
Q. That’s only nine; you said
12 plus D.C.
A. Right, I left out Illinois,
Maryland, New Jersey and Vir
ginia because they no longer fit
in that group. I’ll explain about
them in a minute.
Q. O.K., now which states may
or may not lose anywhere from
nothing to two per cent in Feb
ruary?
A. Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota,
New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio,
Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wis
consin and Wyoming.
Q. Now what about those four
you left out?
A. They also turned up on the
list of 20 states announced Tues
day by the FEO; none of the oth
ers were listed twice.
Q. What does that mean?
A. On Tuesday, the FEO list
ed 10 states whose February gas
oline supply would be increased
five per cent: Alabama, Arizona,
Georgia, Nevada, New Hamp
shire, Oregon, Vermont, West
Virginia, and New Jersey and
Virginia. Those last two were on
the old list; their previous “may
be” two per cent is now included
in their definite five per cent.
The oil companies must provide
those five per cent increases.
The February supplies of gaso
line were also increased two per
cent, Tuesday for Connecticut,
Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts,
Missouri, New York, Pennsyl
vania, Rhode Island, and Illinois
and Maryland.
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Editor:
The Texas Tech basketball
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game impressed me with some
of the best acting I have seen
since the last “professional”
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