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OPINION
The danger of an oil crisis
still exists ten years later
BY MORRIS J. AMITAY
Special to The Jewish News
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Washington — After
years of scant coverage in
the American press, the
Iran-Iraq war has exploded
into headlines with both
sides attacking oil tankers
in the Persian Gulf.
While our government of-
fered to escort the tankers
through the Gulf and the
Straits of Hormuz, the
"moderate" Saudis refused.
Apparently, even in a crisis,
the Saudis do not wish to be
associated too closely with
the United States.
But the situation in the
Gulf is not only a Saudi
problem or a Japanese and
European one — it is also an
American problem. With
eight million barrels of oil a
day going through the
Straits of Hormuz, shor-
tages elsewhere will impact
price-wise on U.S. consum-
ers.
Hopefully, the current
scare headlines will make
more people in the Adminis-
tration and Congress
realize that the United
States has just not been
doing enough to achieve
greater energy self-
sufficiency.
While supplies are
adequate today, there is in
truth no "oil glut" in the
United States as long as we
import about one-third of
the oil we need. Ominously,
imports of oil to the United
States are on the rise again.
We now import about the
same percentage of oil as we
did just before the Arab oil
embargo of 1973.
In the ten years since, we
have made some progress —
notably in lowering
gasoline consumption. But
the threat to our diplomatic
and economic security will
continue as long as we con-
tinue to depend on oil from
Arab-OPEC nations and
unless we take some very
practical steps to achieve
energy self-sufficiency. This
means the Administration
must take the lead and
Congress must implement
the necessary legislation.
A blueprint for helping
solve our still-heavy depen-
dence on foreign oil supplies
consists of the following
steps:
Exploration of the vast,
as-yet-undiscovered oil and
gas resources, onshore and
offshore, must be
encouraged. There are no
practical alternatives now
to oil and gas — which, to-
gether, supply about 70 per-
cent of our energy needs.
Obviously, solar energy will
play a greater role in the fu-
ture, and current tax incen-
tives - for its devlopment
should be continued. But it
will not be a significant fac-
tor until after the year 2000.
Price controls on produc-
tion of all domestic natural
gas should be removed: Gas
is the only primary fuel still
under complicated gover-
ment price regulations,
which has discouraged gas
development. When con-
trols were removed on oil a
few years ago the effect was
positive on both price and
supply.
We now import
about the same
percentage of oil
as we did just
before the Arab
oil embargo of
1973.
Unlike our nation, other
countries — most notably
Canada and Great Britain
— are becoming energy
self-sufficient through de-
velopment of their offshore
oil resources. But the Con-
gress — reacting in some
degree to the personality of
ex-Interior Secretary Watt,
rather than his policy — is
putting more and more
areas out-of-bounds for dril-
ling.. While the memory of
the disastrous Santa Bar-
bara oil spill still remains,
experience since then has
shown that we can drill into
the ocean floor and protect
the environment at the
same time.
Increased development of
the nation's abundant coal
resources and nuclear
power must be encouraged.
These resources have the
potential to generate much
more of the nation's electric-
ity. It is wasteful and
short-sighted to burn oil to
produce electricity.
The nation's. Strategic
Petroleum Reserve must be
filled as rapidly as possible.
The reserve can serve as a
buffer against unforeseen
foreign oil cutoffs, but it is
not being filled as quickly as
it should.
Energy efficiency and
conservation efforts must be
actively continued and
stimulated. The wise and ef-
ficient use of energy by
households, industries, and
transportation systems can
help reduce our dependence
on foreign oil.
The above are all attain-
able goals — and the sooner
implemented the better, as
we watch unfolding events
in the 'Persian Gulf .
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