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ir : aye o I ne BATTALiON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1979 Energy conservation Outlines his own 5-point energy plan All-out U.S. gas Clements slams Carter, Schlesinger oil efforts urged United Press International DALLAS — President Carter and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger need to “get their act together“ on the availability of gasoline to Ameri cans, Gov. Bill Clements said Tues day. Referring to Schlesinger’s warn ings that gas shortages are immi nent. “Our great, good energy secre tary, Mr. Schlesinger, has misspoken and I notice Mr. Carter has disclaimed that statement. I’d like to see him and Schlesinger get GAYLINE 693-1630 Information Referral Counseling M-Th. 8-10:00 p.m. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ £ HATE DOING £ LAUNDRY? { Let Frannie's do it for you £ Aunt Frannies Laundromat * ^-Holleman at Anderson 693-6587!4" their act together,” he said. Clements, addressed the annual membership meeting of the Greater Dallas Crime Commission, stressing that studied development of Texas’ resources would be the most impor tant step in avoiding shortages. He said the petroleum depart ments of Texas A&M University and the University of Texas would be charged with helping build “an energy-economy model fitted to the image of Texas. ” The Republican governor out- Open 10am-9pm Closed Sunday 693-2899 ‘MOTHER C NATURE HOME OF NUTRITION Culpepper Plaza 1605 Texas Ave. South JUICE BAR smoothies frozen yogurt sandwiches juices Natural Vitamins*Foods*Cosmetics lined the five steps he considers necessary to continued energy availability in the state: “First we need to unfetter and turn loose the petroleum industry. Second we need to do something with our coal and lignite resources. We also need to turn loose our nu clear ability and get on with it. And fourth, we must have an aggressive development plan for the year 2000 and beyond for the exotic things like solar and wind energy — and I stress that these are not long-term solutions but exotics. And fifth, we need to practice conservation, but that is the least.” Asked about the possibility of an agreement with Mexico to buy some of that country’s abundant oil and gas, Clements was cautiously op timistic. “That’s trying to forecast something that’s a pretty hazardous game,” he said, “but I would like to think sometime in 1970 a gas con tract can be concluded. ’ Clements also announced his sec ond executive order, creating an 11-member commission to lead the campaign against drugs and drug dealers. The commission will be headed by millionaire computer magnate H. Ross Perot. “This committee will act as a counseling committee to various law enforcement agencies across the state as well as overview committees of the House and Senate,” he said. Clements said the panel would be primarily concerned with gathering intelligence about drug trafic. “Perhaps they can get intelligence that the police can’t.” The governor also said he be lieved the Legislature would pass a wiretapping law aimed at the drug dealers this year. United Press International AUSTIN — The Texas Energy Advisory Council today unanim ously approved a resolution urg ing an immediate move toward all-out energy production in the United States to stave oft’ the prospects of gasoline rationing. The resolution by Railroad Commissioner Mack Wallace asked the Carter administration to recognize that the nation’s failure to launch an all-out energy effort that would have been the “moral equivalent of war” is the cause of the nation’s excessive dependence on oil from the Middle East and tlve source of its vulnerability to gasoline rationing. Walt Rostow, a former adviser to President Lyndon Johnson, told the Energy Advisory Coun cil the loss of oil imports from Iran is bringing the western na tions closer to the time when their demand for Middle Eastern, crude will outstrip production, “The nation must now at las face all out energy production' Rostow said. "This nation wasted five years, and is in tlie process of wasting a sixth. I “We are not going to he save^ by Me xico, we are not goingto be saved by China, we are not going to be saved by the Saudis,' Rostow said. “Either we art going to go on or we are goingto sink on the basis of our own pro duction.” Th c resolution adopted by (lit council calls for an immediate deregulation of oil and gas prices to encourage new production, re laxation of env ironmental con-; straints on energy production, and commitments hy politidl leaders for energy conservation lr Worke (LDE1 term t measures. cMytandcfo ,K a NOON-SEVEN 75c bar drinks 40c beer NORTHGATE (Next to the Dixie Chicken) v* ■<£ -> Carter: voluntary oil conservation needed to ease Iranian stoppage Researd l|c halloo fill be cor |gineer o ;space : iMateria AT ,k=5 United Press International WASHINGTON — President Carter is calling on Americans for a voluntary, patriotic conservation drive to help see the nation through the cutoff of Iranian oil supplies without mandatory measures to save energy. Carter acknowledges the situation is serious, saying if Iran’s pro duction is not resumed within a month the United States w ill “have to take strenuous action” to ease oil shortages. But he says voluntary conservation can offset the loss of Iran’s oil for now. ciLASS. ttry nrjfEiLr i jflUEAlL CILAjfjf For precision haircutting, by the professionals. 209 E. UNIVERSITY 846-4771 (In the George Green Bldg.) OPEN MON.-SAT. “The situation is not critical now,” Carter told a news conference Monday. “It’s not a crisis, but it certainly could get worse. Government and private energy officials paint a less optimistic picture. Oil industry experts familiar with Iran say it could take two months or more to get that nation’s strike-closed wells flowing again — at perhaps half the old maximum rate of about 6 million barrels a day — if the new government made an immediate decision to resume pump- ing. 9(p l)St ' ( l *’ And the first oil, they said, might be reserved for Iranians rather Ivironme than sold for export. '|j ptofth* The Energy Department said it already lias been foreed to impose lehllof the first of four graduated ste/» in a mandatory oil allocation plan - lAfterbl ordering major oil companies to sell crude oil to 10 small refiners that I" ^ ms have been cut off from their normal supplies in Iran. 'i Irieved Some experts, noting Saudi Arabia has raised the price of extra oil | Dr. Jai it is producing to help replace the flow from Iran, said gasoline prices |n of me may climb more rapidly than expected toward $1 per gallon. Iperties Carter said Americans can save enough fuel by obeying the 55 mph |We ex] speed limit, setting thermostats no higher than 65 degrees and avoid- [tut other ing unnecessary driving to offset the loss of oil from Iran. The president said he is relying in part on rapidly increasingtueisim prices and federal tax incentives to get Americans to save energy:V*■ ,'oluntarily. I Carter seeks fair price for Mexican oil ihe ixtr Uni United Press International WASHINGTON — With future Iranian oil supplies uncertain. Pres- '/upfnam&a Eddie Dominguez ’66 Joe Arciniega ’74 ident Carter says while in Mexico he plans to discuss the sale of oil to the United States at a “fair price” — but expects no special privileges. Carter, who will fl%' to Mexico City today for a three-day visit, had tried to play down oil as the top priority 7 item on the agenda of his talks with Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo. GET A BETTER THAN FLORIDA TAN! SKI But the turbulent political events in Iran have made Mexico’s newly discovered oil reserves loom large. “We are interested in purchasing now and perhaps in the future even more oil and natural gas from Mexico,” Carter told a news confer ence Monday. “We wall negotiate with them in good faith,” he said. “We will pay them a fair price. We will try' to be a good customer. "But we havt force them to M exiean-A mericans. They also said they will su| Pemex, operator of Mexico's tionalized oil industry, withafi the discriminating coinptinies. The president and Mrs. Cl will he in Mexico City until Fri with fence mending and a rount] Siesta-style activities planned for visit. He is still toying with (fie of delivering a major address WINTER PARK COLORADO SPRING BREAK only 139°o* It you want the real thing, not frozen or canned . . . 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They said they will ask Lopez Portillo to bar from developing Mexico’s oilfields any U.S. oil firms which discriminate against ( haniber of Deputies in Spam 'it br: hi V but may be talked out of it by enough in the language. lis bank : he fo “We are very proud of there# discoveries of oil and natural p , Mexico,” Carter said. “Obviora I , a i l u 8ht a burgeoning, improving ecor L j situation in Mexico will pro'! [ „ hundreds of thousands of new j that will lessen the pressure 6 some of them to seek employ® lu in our country.” •ALLA lewhal ik won’ itakenly jJlick s jre Tu< |ney to bank 'S med H want Inday. peously int. se f Carter lias said he will not C' S ' troduce legislation on no documented aliens until he i the views of Lopez Portillo. 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