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'Energy Crisis' a Fiction Linked to Wallet, Not to M.E. Politics, U.S. Industrialists Charge
is concerned, a renewed war to increase its own use of
with Israel would indeed en- nuclear power . . . Beyond
danger the flow of Persian this, of course, is the over-
Gulf oil. But this possibility powering need of our nation
seems to have blinded Amer. to become as independent as
ican opinion to the even possible of oil imported from
more serious Middle East the Middie East and other
trouble spots that border di- areas."
Texaco's president, in a
rectly on the oil fields.
statement to the air and
"As
an
immediate
source
The claims by the Standard
water subcommittee of the
of an oil crisis, the Arab-
Oil Co. of California that the
Senate Public Works Com-
Israeli conflict ranks some-
oil-producing Arab countries
mittee, said that "While the
where
below
Kurdish
na-
will curtail production or
basic reasons for the 1973
tionalism,
the
Iraq-Kuwait
embargo sales to the U. S.
shortages of petroleum prod-
confrontation . . . the Iraq-
be—use of America's pro-
ucts are both complex and
Iranian
dispute
over
the
L policies in the Middle
controversial, there is little
Shatt
al
Arab
waterway,
the
Ea,L, were vigorously refuted
argument among those who
Saudi tension with Abu
in an editorial in the Wall
have followed the matter
Dhabi over the Buraimi
Street Journal Tuesday.
closely that a very major
Oasis and the ethnic rebel-
factor is a lack of adequate
In recent 'public state-
lion in the Dhofar province
refining capacity within the
ments, John K. McKinley,
of Oman."
United States, coupled with
president of Texaco, Inc.,
The editorial conceded that an inadequate supply of the
attributed the oil shortage in
the Arabs are "tough cus- correct kind of crude oil."
large measure to technologi-
tamers" as are "almost any-
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
cal lags rather than politics;
body else who sits on oil," (D., Minn.), in a speech in
0. and Charles F. Luce, chair-
but "the idea that to crush Denver Tuesday night, ob-
_ man of the board of the Con-
Israel they would ignore served that the U. S. has a
solidated Edison Co., stress-
their economic interests, or legitimate interest in a
ed that America has more
would turn charitable if Is-
than a m p l e alternative
rael were sacrificed, strikes
sources of energy and need
us as a view tinged with the
not let its fuel needs become
romanticism which has so
hostage to Middle East poli-
fogged the western view of
tics.
the Middle East," the Jour-
The linkage of possible oil
nal said.
shortages to Arab bitterness
The editorial made the
over U. S. support for Israel,
TEL AVIV JTA)—Israeli
point that "Even 10 years
was made in a recent letter
from now, about half of security circles are taking a
American oil needs will be serious view of recent inci-
met domestically' and nearly dents on the Egyptian front,
half of the rest from some- the latest of which was an
where in the Western Hemis- overflight last weekend by
two Egyptian Sukhoi-7 bomb-
phere."
ers over Israeli
STILL THE WORLD'S LARGEST
Luce, of Con Edison, re northwest
Sinai. positions in
iterating remarks he made
A military spokesman said
at the 28th annual meeting
of the New York chapter of I Israeli ground forces di-
the American Jewish Corn- rected antiaircraft fire at the
mittee, where he was re- intruding planes but did not
cipient of the Stanley H. say whether they had been
Isaacs Human Relations hit.
Israel has lodged a com-
Award, observed that 'the
plaint
with the United Na-
U.S. is "as rich in coal as
tions
Cease
Fire Control Staff
the Middle East is in oil.
For the Best Deal
"Maybe we have to bring in Jerusalem.
Saturday's overflight was
on the New "73's"
coal back and use it to dis-
the third incident in the past
place
a
lot
of
the
oil
that
we
RED STOTSKY
MILT LEVIN
two weeks. Earlier, Israeli
Call 863-9300 burn," Luce said. "We have planes were attacked by
Call 863-9300
to go after our oil and gas
reserves that aren't being Egyptian fire and fighter
18650 LIVERNOIS, SOUTH OF SEVEN
tapped . . . Our country has planes over the Gulf of Suez
and a naval clash between
Israeli and Egyptian patrol
boats took place in the Gulf
of Suez after the Egyptians
opened fire on an Israeli
naval patrol.
Security circles said Sat-
urday's overflight appeared
to be a photo reconnaisance
mission. They said the pene-
tration was a brief one and
took place over a swampy
region.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Amer-
ican industrial and business
sources have begun to chal-
lenge the view being propa-
gated by some U. S. oil com-
panies that the country faces
a serious energy crisis be-
cause of the Arab-Israeli dis-
pute.
from Otto N. Miller, chair-
man of the board of the
Standard Oil Co., to its 40,000
employes and 200,000 stock-
holders urging the U. S. to
show far greater understand-
ing of Arab aspirations.
Mobil Oil Co. stated a simi-
lar point of view in an ad-
vertisement published in the
New York Times.
The Wall Street Journal
declared Tuesday, however,
that there was little sub-
stance to those arguments.
"Rhetoric about Israel in
fact often seems to be a
`figleaf,' as one Middle
Eastern bureaucrat puts it,
for more pressing economic
objectives," the Journal said.
The editorial noted that
Saudi Arabia's reluctance to
increase oil production stems
from the problem of absorb-
ing oil revenues in its near
feudal economy. It pointed
out that Libya "recently put
production limits on Stan-
dard Oil of California de-
spite California Standard's
pro-Arab lobbying, suggest-
ing that the real targets of
the campaign are the oil
companies that have not yet
agreed to Libya's economic
demands."
The editorial continued:
"As far as the Arab world
Egyptian Front
Incidents Eyed
With Concern
peaceful Middle East and
needs easy access to the re-
gion's large oil reserves.
"But the way to guarantee
a dependable oil supply is
not to relinquish our sup-
port of Israel," he said. The
former vice president, ad-
dressing the Denver Friends
of Yeshiva University, said
that "Israel has nothing to
do with the current or future
shortage of fuel oil and gaso-
line. Rather, wasteful prac-
tices, bad planning, lack of
refining capacity, corporate
collusion, insufficient min-
eral exploration, lackluster
research into energy alter-
natitves are some of the
basic ingredients of the
energy crisis," he said.
In Montreal, the Canada-
Israel Committee accused
Standard Oil of California of
trying to make Israel "the
scapegoat for a fictitious
energy crisis" in order to
win concessions from oil-
producing Arab states and to
condition American consum-
ers to accept higher prices
for oil.
A statement issued here
by the committee, which is
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comprised of the Canadian
Zionist Federation, Bnai
Brith and the Canadian Jew-
ish Congress, denounced the
letter from Miller.
"It should be recognized
that this letter is a self-
serving document which is
using the pretext of an oil
crisis to promote, at the ex-
pense of the oil consuming
public, the interests of the
Arab oil-producing nations
and the international oil
companies themselves," the
statement charged.
According to the CIC
"Peace in the Middle East
is the most effective guar-
antee of a continued supply
of Middle East oil" and U.S.
support of Israel "is the most
effective means of preser-
ving this peace."
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