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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1979 m '.. x. Oil rigs to give locals United Press International BOSTON — An oil industry ex ploration manager has predicted almost- half the jobs related to offshore oil and gas drilling on the Georges Bank fishing ground would go to local residents. Edd R. Turner, of the Getty Oil Co.’s Houston office, said “employ ment of local people can dramatically increase” as more rigs are moved into a region such as Georges Bank. Oil companies Dec. 18 will bid on exploration leases for 116 tracts in the area 85 miles off the Mas sachusetts coast if a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals does not intervene on behalf of environmentalists trying to block the sale. Experience in the Baltimore Ca nyon area off the New Jersey coast shows more than 1,400 people obtained full-time jobs one year after the establishment of exploratory oil rigs. Turner said. “Of the 1,444, 588 — 41 percent — were hired locally,” Turner said Tuesday at a briefing in Boston spon sored by the Washington-based American Petroleum Institute. Turner said it would be difficult to hire more local people because the drilling operations require experi enced workers. effects. “But as operations settle into the local routine, more local people be come experienced and can assume the skilled jobs on the rigs, ” he said. Turner said there would also increase in the local truckiil and air transport industries, 11 er, if oil were found on Georjal it would not be slated forNewjj land alone, he said. Support for the offshore drilling operation would be based in Rhode Island, he said. Gov. J. Joseph Gar- rahy has expressed strong support for drilling because of its economic “Depending on supply tions, the oil would probably the nearby refineries in New Jersey area or in thePlij phia area,’ he said, addin| there it would be distributed the country. 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United Press International The Department of Energy is expected to revise its gasoline price controls Saturday and grant inde pendent dealers an additional four-tenths of a cent profit on each gallon sold at the pump, petroleum analysts said Wednesday. The move would add four-tenths of a penny to the average retail price of gasoline, now $1.01 a gallon. On Aug. 1 the DOE allowed dealers that rent stations from oil companies — about 80 percent of all U.S. gasoline outlets — a maximum profit margin of 15.4 cents a gallon to simplify the enforcement of legal gasoline pricing. Under the new federal controls, the difference between the wholesale price the dealer paid for gaso line and his retail price cannot exceed 15.4 cents a gallon. Prior to introducing the new regulations, the DOE had estimated that 50 percent of U.S. stal were in violation of the legal price controls. I dreds of motorists had called the DOE s specialli line each week to report suspected price-gougini the pump. But in Los Angeles, the authoritative Lundbgl Letter estimated the DOE would raise the deal maximum markup to 15.8 cents a gallon fromisj cents. Lundberg’s petroleum analysts used the Cra National Product deflator, on which the DOEspr fit ceiling is based, to calculate the anticipated® gin increase. Analysts also said a rise in the independentdei ers’ legal profit margin would step up pressureontli DOE to bring company-operated service station under the same ceiling. 10-fold hike goal set for 1981 Marl of bo Terri Bran More gasohol production sougl United Press International NEW ORLEANS — By New Year’s Day 1981, the federal govern ment hopes 10 percent of all un leaded gas pumps in the United States will actually be selling gasohol. That would require almost a 10- fold increase in current production of ethyl alcohol but is a modest and attainable goal, Tina Hobson, dire ctor of the office of consumer affairs in the U.S. Department of Energy, told the Inter-American Conference on Renewable Sources of Energy Tuesday. A Brazilian scientist told the dele gates that Brazil has dramatically in creased its use of gasohol so that now it is “almost a fait accompli. ’” He said that as a result there is actually a gasoline surplus in that country, where a gallon of gas costs the equivalent of $2.60 in U.S. money. The three-day conference, with delegates from throughout the Un ited States and 46 other countries, is studying development of non petroleum fuels such as alcohol de rived from agricultural products, and wind and water power. Hobson, one of about a dozen speakers, said a decentralized pro duction system for alcohol might be able to increase current U.S. output of ethyl alcohol from about 60 million gallons annually to 500 million by Dec. 31, 1980. She said plants that are now operating should be able to quintuple their production, to 300 million gallons, with new plants making up the remaining 200 million gallons. She said consumers in the United States appear to favor a decentral ized production system, with small, farm-based alcohol plants producing up to one million gallons annually, rather than much larger facilities. “Alcohol fuels can belp reconcile the differences between the rich and the poor, the industrial and the de veloping nations and between humankind and nature,” Hobson Un EL PA! earts of" a bar f< said. “In capturing this import ) n i dowr opportunity, there is no roomfir ploitation, no room foreconorni earby he political greed.” It was Sergio Trindade, executive e aurant c ctor of the Promon Technology ' ran ) < ]j n ter at Rio De Janiero, expto M e thodis some of the methods by whicli * r downc country has increased the ust u blicsah gasohol, along with some of fhard sj problems and some of theexped ooms trends “I’m ve In the United States, most gas above blends art 90 percent gasoline 10 percent alcohol. In Brazil,g y^d hoi is a combination of 80 perc taurant i gasoline and 20 percent alcohol Trindade said most ethyl aM ai produced in Brazil is distilledh jj-j sugar cane and madioca, aplant lar to yucca. One of the main costs production of alcohol as a said, is that of the grain or plant® ter from which it is derived, Ths fore, research and development* play a large part in incrcasmgthe onstruct of^alcohol. Texas A&M Bookstore has just received a new shipment of books. Senate would give independent oilmen a break NOW 50% OFF FOR YOUR GIFT GIVING PLEASURE! Also great for those building a library of their own SALE BEGINS NOV. 30 LOCATED IN THE MSC United Press International WASHINGTON — In a move the White House calls “a raw deal for the American people,” the Senate has given independent American oil producers a $10 bil- , lion tax break that virtually ex empts them from the proposed windfall profits tax. The Senate voted 53-41 to approve an amendment by Sen. 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