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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
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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. ”
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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
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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.
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“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-
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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*■
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Carter seeks fair price for Mexican oil
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WASHINGTON — With future
Iranian oil supplies uncertain. Pres-
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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.
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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.
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M exiean-A mericans.
They also said they will su|
Pemex, operator of Mexico's
tionalized oil industry, withafi
the discriminating coinptinies.
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Siesta-style activities planned for
visit. He is still toying with (fie
of delivering a major address
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no inclination to
give us special
privileges nor to do anything that
would be damaging to the well
being of the Mexican people,” he
said.
Carter also will raise with Lopez
Portillo other issues on which there
are “differences of opinion between
our people and theirs” — including
illegal migration of hundreds of
thousands of Mexicans to the United
States each year.
He got an earful at a White House
meeting Monday with a group of
Hispanic-American civic leaders
who accused him of ignoring alleged
civil rights abuses against the
Spanish-speaking minority in the
United States.
They said they will ask Lopez
Portillo to bar from developing
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