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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JUNE 4 1981
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Economist says oil future OK
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — Kconom-
ist Milton Friedman and a panel of
petroleum experts painted an
optimistic picture of America’s
energy future as they told a group
of petroleum scientists that the
country will be more energy inde
pendent this decade than last.
Friedman told the 66th annual
convention of the American Asso
ciation of Petroleum Geologists
Tuesday that oil prices will de
crease over the next five years, as
long as there is peace in the Mid
dle East and the United States
continues to develop alternate
energy sources.
He said the current high price
of oil products were the fault of
past government policies such as
oil price controls, which he said
discouraged U.S. companies from
finding new domestic supplies.
“OPEC is not the problem,”
said Friedman, “Washington is
the problem.
The Nobel Prize winner said
there is no danger the U.S. will
run out of oil, and compared cur
rent predictions to that effect with
similar predictions made in the
1920s, when experts said the
world had only a decade of oil on
hand.
Ted M. Geffen, petroleum en
gineer and consultant and an in
ternational expert on enhanced oil
recovery techniques, told the
press that new recovery methods
“offer the possibility of recovering
substantial amounts, estimated to
be within the limits of 20 to 50
billion barrels from already lo
cated domestic fields.” He said
this could double the amount of
existing U.S. reserves.
L. W. Funkhouser, exploration
and production vice president for
Standard Oil of California, pre
dicted increased deep gas drilling
barring an unforeseen decrease in
investment funds.
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first summer session, students are already
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Galveston, iBriekson says his blood proved
:ed untilwiBiere was nothing dangerous ab-
Padre Iskpjut herbicides.
“There’s a big hue and cry ab-
lut nothing, as far as I’m con-
jerned,” said Erickson, a chemie-
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Washington Department of Natu-
al Resources, who rarely sees a
veek go by without handling the
ubstances used to kill unwanted
prush and trees in state forests.
A few years ago, Erickson sent a
Kittle of blood over to. the state
aboratory for analysis. He said
here wasn’t a trace of the chemic-
,1s he’s been heavily exposed to
more than a decade.
“That’s one of the reasons I
don’t believe there’s a problem,
ic said.
Erickson is one of those on the
humbug’ side of the growing
tlPf ;on Toversy over the herbicide
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UUn :han a million acres of grain fields,
' ibout 50,000 acres of forest and
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way.
Every spring, the herbicide is
used to kill weeds in the wheat
fields, unwanted alder and vine
firs 3Ccnli''M m P^ e * n y° un K Douglas fir forests
and undesirable roadside brush.
Other officials say Erickson’s re
lief about the lack of 2,4-D traces
in his blood is misplaced. Unlike
substances such as DDT, the her
bicide does not accumulate in the
human body. That makes testing
for its health effects especially dif
ficult.
Defenders of 2,4-D contend it is
a valuable and safe tool for provid-
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so many adverse effects,” said Dr.
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Wash., biochemist and geneticist.
Last year, Dr. Shearer re
viewed all the available scientific
data on 2,4-D for Seattle Metro,
which is responsible for water
quality in Lake Washington and
considered using the herbicide to
control aquatic weeds.
Her conclusion was that more
careful, undisputable tests are
needed. She believes studies in
Sweden, the Soviet Union and
elsewhere suggest a possible can
cer connection.
She said there are clear ties be
tween the herbicide and tempor
ary or long-term numbness in the
extremities, respiratory impair
ments, hypersensitivity to all pet
rochemicals and bleeding and
hemorrhaging.
Shearer believes this bleeding
connection could be related in
some way to the incident: that has
sparked arguments over 2,4-D:
the unusual number of miscar
riages reported last year in the
tiny town of Ashford, Wash.
Out of 10 conceptions between
July and December 1979, women
in the logging town near Mount
Rainier reported seven miscar
riages, one stillbirth and one in
fant death.
State health experts were called
to investigate suggestions the:
problems might he the result of
2,4-14 spraying in nearby forests.
The result was a study by Dr. Sam
Milham, an epidemiologist for the
Department of Social and Health
Services.
Milham concluded last Decem
ber that there was no connection
between the problems and herbi
cide spraying.
In Milham’s opinion, 2,4-D is
“an exceedingly safe agent.”
“I’d hate to see it go. We can’t
raise wheat or rice in this country
without 2,4-D,” he said.
Robert Matthews, president of
the Washington State Pest Man
agement Alliance, an association
of industry groups, said that if
there were any problems with 2,4-
D, “they certainly would have
shown up years ago.”
Grape and apple growers in
eastern Washington won restric
tions on aerial spraying of 2,4-D
this spring because the drifting
chemical was damaging their
crops.
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ing cancer, birth defects or mis
carriages.
, “I don’t consider that it’s safe to
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