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Boulter: Bentsen
not friend material
for energy industry
LUBBOCK (AP) — Republican
U.S. Senate nominee Rep. Beau
Boulter on Tuesday again ques
tioned Sen. Lloyd Bentsen’s loyalties
to Texas, saying the Democratic vice
presidential nominee is teamed with
an enemy of the state’s oil and gas in
dustry.
Continuing the campaign theme
that portrays two different Bentsens
running for Senate and on the Dem
ocratic presidential ticket, Boulter,
R-Amarillo, said Bentsen’s alliance
with Dukakis proves he’s no friend
to the energy industry.
“Now, one of the Lloyd Bentsens
is trying to convince you and I and
Texans all over as a part of his vice
presidential campaign that Gover
nor Michael Dukakis is going to be
the savior of the oil and gas indus
try,” he told supporters at a GOP
gathering.
“I find it incredible, absolutely in
credible, that Lloyd Bentsen could
pander Mike Dukakis off as some
one who is going to help the do
mestic petroleum industry, espe
cially when you compare Mike
Dukakis with George Bush,” he said.
Boulter said Dukakis has opposed
deregulation of natural gas and oil
prices and repeal of the windfall
profits tax.
“Michael Dukakis has made a po
litical career out of energy baiting,”
he said.
“When Mike Dukakis is on the
stump, he talks about biomass, pas
sive solar energy, wind and wood.”
Boulter charged Bentsen with
holding up passage of legislation
that he and GOP Sen. Phil Gramm
that would provide tax incentives for
exploration and marginal well stim
ulation by refusing to hold hearings
on the proposals.
“I honestly thought Senator Bent
sen wanted to help our energy in
dustry here in Texas, but now I
think we’ve got to ask whether he
would rather serve with a person
who is truly a liberal,” Boulter said.
“I think he’s sending a clear message
that he really doesn’t want to serve in
the U.S. Senate for Texas anymore.”
Meanwhile, Boulter said he saw
reason for optimism in a recent poll
that showed him trailing Bentsen by
30 points.
The poll, conducted by the Hous
ton Chronicle and the Dallas Morn
ing News, showed 58 percent of vot
ers preferring Bentsen, while 28
percent supported Boulter for Sen
ate.
Boulter said that poll showed him
as gaining 20 points on Bentsen.
Falling price of oil
could damage U.S.
DALLAS (AP) — As crude oil fu
tures dropped to a near two-year
low, Texas oil industry analysts dis
agreed Tuesday on what immediate
effect there would be on consumer
prices.
But they said as Iran and Iraq
move toward peace, the result is
likely to be an increase of oil on
world markets, which could mean
bad news for U.S. oil production.
Pressured by skepticism about
OPEC’s ability to restrain its produc
tion, crude oil futures tumbled
Tuesday. On the New York Mercan
tile Exchange, contracts for October
delivery of West Texas Interme
diate, the benchmark grade of U.S.
crude, had dropped 43 cents a bar
rel to $14.36 by early afternoon.
Crude prices haven’t been that low
on the exchange since November
1986.
Futures prices of refined oil prod
ucts traded on the exchange
dropped almost a penny a gallon.
Contracts for October delivery of
wholesale unleaded gasoline were
down 0.98 cent at 43.00 cents a gal
lon, while October wholesale heating
oil had fallen 0.93 cent to 41.95.
James L. Smith, associate profes
sor of economics at the University of
Houston, said Tuesday’s drop in the
price of oil is not significant, but is
part of a series of recent fluctua
tions.
“I don’t put any particular weight
on today’s move down, versus other
moves up,” Smith said. “The day-to-
day fluctuations are going to mirror
political developments, and rather
minor developments.”
The latest decline probably will
not mean a drop in consumer prices,
he said.
But in the long run, if peace is
reached between Iran and Iraq, the
country with the potential to expand
oil production is Iraq, Smith said.
“There’s a good chance that they
will expand their production, which
poses a problem for OPEC,” he said,
adding that it will be difficult to hold
down the amount of oil on world
markets.
Dale Steffes, principal and
founder of Planning &: Forecasting
Consultants of Houston, said the oil-
price drop is good and bad.
“That’s terrible for the Southwest
oil patch in the United States,”
Steffes said. “But it’s just wonderful
for the consumer.”
He said Tuesday’s drop translates
to a consumer savings of about a
penny a gallon in gasoline prices and
said prices can be expected to drop
even further.
“It’s going to go down lower and
lower,” Steffes said. “OPEC wants to
try lower prices.”
As the Iran and Iraq war winds
down, he said, it does not mean the
Middle Eastern nations will work to
gether to hold down the flow of oil
onto world markets.
“The position in the Middle East
is people still hate each other.
They’ve just stopped killing each
other,” Steffes said.
Peter Beutel, assistant director of
the energy group at Elders Futures
Inc., said, “There’s too much oil
right now. OPEC is showing a com
plete lack of discipline.”
The market’s pessimism about the
willingness of the 13-nation Organi
zation of Petroleum Exporting
Countries to trim its output was
deepened by published reports ap
pearing Monday.
The Middle East Economic Sur
vey, an influential weekly published
in Nicosia, Cyprus, reported that
OPEC Secretary-General Subroto
has made little headway in his efforts
to persuade Iraq to accept an oil pro
duction quota and Iran to allow its
Persian Gulf foe one equal to its own.
Now that they have agreed to a
cease-fire, Iran and Iraq can turn to
rebuilding their war-damaged oil in
dustries, raising the prospect of a
fresh surge in oil production and a
fall in crude prices, some analysts
18 universities
will receive
federal grants
WASHINGTON (AP) — Grants
totaling $2 million soon will be
awarded to 18 predominantly black
land-grant colleges and universities,
the Agriculture Department an
nounced Tuesday.
Deputy Secretary Peter C. Myers
said the grants will help the schools
upgrade instructional programs in
agriculture, strengthen faculty and
recruit and retain minority students
in the fields of agriculture and food
sciences.
The grants will be administered
by the department’s Office of Mi
nority Research and Teaching Pro
grams, which primarily serves the in
terests of colleges and universities
authorized under an 1890 federal
law, the Second Morrill Act.
Officials said the grants, minus
administrative costs, will provide
each of the recipients a total of
$102,496.
Some of the schools include:
Prarie View A&:M University,
Texas
Alabama A&:M University, Hunt
sville.
Alcorn State University, Lorman,
Miss.
University of Arkansas-Pine
Bluff.
Florida A&M University, Talla
hassee.
North Carolina A&T State Uni
versity, Greensboro.
Langston University, Langston,
Okla.
South Carolina State College, Or
angeburg.
Tennessee State University, Nash
ville.
University of the District of Co
lumbia, Washington, D.C.
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