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Says nation lacks energy policy
White criticizes U.S. government
‘‘It doesn’t matter how many Cabbage Patch dolls are
imported. However, it does matter how much oil is im
ported. We need to distinguish between strategic and
non-strategic industries and protect those that are im
portant”
— Mack Wallace, commissioner of the Texas Railroad
Commission
Associated Press
MIAMI — Texas Gov. Mark
White criticized the federal gov
ernment Tuesday for what he
said was a lack of a national en
ergy policy, saying Washington
alternately pursues policies of
“panic and apathy.”
“We’re crazy not to have d
coherent energy policy, especially
now when we have a temporary
oil surplus,” White, a Democrat,
told the Southern Governors’ As
sociation on its final day of meet
ings this year.
White said energy reserves are
crucial to national security and
said a coherent policy was impor
tant to the entire country, not just
oil and gas interests in the South.
■ He wasn’t alone with his crit
icisms.
“It doesn’t matter how many
Cabbage Patch dolls are im
ported,” Mack Wallace, commis
sioner of the Texas Railroad
Commission and a panelist at a
discussion on energy issues, said.
“However, it does matter how
much oil is imported. We need to
distinguish between strategic and
non-strategic industries and pro
tect those that are important.
The governors have repeatedly
attacked the federal government
on a variety of topics during the
past two days, saying federal bud
get deficits, the trade imbalance
and inconsistencies in energy po
lices all have hurt Southern states.
“We don’t have an oil surplus, I
don’t care what the experts tell
us,” Louisiana Gov. Edwin Ed
wards said. “We are losing our
ability to produce oil. I think the
Middle Eastern countries are set
ting us up for another 1973 gas
shortage.”
"Once we can’t meet demand
they will stick it to us again and
we’ll have to pay $40 or $60 a bar
rel,” Edwards, a Democrat, said.
White agreed, saying the fed
eral government actecl in panic
when oil shortages hit in the
1970s and now “snow little inter
est in formulating a long term
policy.”
Edwards said the governors
should push for opening more
offshore drilling sites in Califor
nia and Florida.
“I told (former California gov
ernor) Jerry Brown that if he’d
leave the state for a month I’d
have a Cajun build an oil pipeline
from there to Louisiana ana have
it covered up before he got back,”
Edwards said.
Florida Gov. Bob Graham
spoke with caution about off
shore oil.
“With our tourist industry, we
have to weigh the environmental
costs of drilling” near our
beaches, he said.
Edwards countered, saying
"tourists can’t travel without gas,
and unemployment can be a ter
rible form of pollution.”
The governors passed several
energy-related resolutions. They
approved measures supporting a
federal role in financing synthetic
fuels technologies, called for tax
incentives to encourage oil and
gas exploration, and requested
Congress not increase oil industry
taxes that help support the Su
perfund toxic-waste cleanup pro
ram. The latter resolution did,
owever, call for a reauthoriza
tion of the Superfund program.
“We need to be on record as
demanding a national energy pol
icy and this is a step in the right
direction,” Gov. Martha Layne
Collins of Kentucky said.
Oklahoma’s Gov. George Nigh
agreed, saying, “after seven years
of attending this conference I
think we’ve finally achieved a
pro-oil producing attitude here.”
Oklahoma also has had several
bank failures, Nigh noted, saying
“we need to get back to a point
where we are encouraging explo
ration and development, not just
standing still.”
In other developments, Gra
ham said he supported a regional
residential primary in the
outh.
“It would increase the strength
of the South politically and a di
rect vote serve to help us reach
mainstream Democrats,” Flor
ida’s Democratic governor said.
On Monday, the Southern
Legislative Conference’s exec
utive committee appointed a task
force to look at the possibility of
holding a regional presidential
primary in 1988.
Soutnern states participating in
the governors’ conference are:
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi,
Missouri, North Carolina, Okla
homa, South Carolina, Tennes
see, Texas, Virginia and West
Virginia.
Wednesday, September 11,1985/The Battalion/Page 11
Galveston campers
encounter tornado
Associated Press
GALVESTON — A tornado that
struck the Galveston Island State
Park caused minor damage to the
park facilities but turned over seve
ral camping trailers, officials said.
“Apparently it came in with a
squall about 11 p.m. last night,” park
superintendent Jake Dameron said
Tuesday. “It blew over two motor
homes, turned them on their sides
and rolled a camper trailer upside
down.”
The twister knocked out power to
several residences on the west end of
the island, authorities said.
Ralph Lorenz, 56, of Longview,
was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in
Galveston and released Tuesday
morning after being treated for mul
tiple contusions, a hospital
spokeswoman said.
Lorenz’s wife, Sarah, 48, also was
treated for multiple contusions. The
couple was in the camper trailer that
was turned upside-down, Dameron
said.
Houston senior citizen
claims discrimination
Associated Press
HOUSTON — The former head
of contract compliance for the city of
Houston has filed a federal lawsuit
claiming the city discriminates
against older white males and that
the Civil Service Commission’s griev
ance procedure is unconstitutional.
J. Bryant Young, 56, was fired in
March after working 10 years with
the city.
Young is seeking re-instatement
to his $33,600-a-year job, back pay
and unspecified damages.
He claims the city has a policy of
“deliberately eliminating older white
male employees from the work
force.”
As a contract compliance officer,
Young was responsible for seeing
that private contractors paid their
employees according to city wage
regulations and that minority busi
nesses participated in city projects.
The lawsuit also contends Young’s
right to privacy was violated by the
open Civil Service Commission near
ing on his case.
Young is one of four white males
who have filed discrimination com
plaints with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission.
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