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GRADUAL DECONTROL
Congress agrees on oil plan
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WASHINGTON (1')-Congres-
sional conferees reached agree-
ment yesterday on an oil-pric-
ing plan that would gradually
increase fuel prices after the
1976 elections. It was unclear
whether the legislation is ac-
ceptable to President Ford.
The complex pricing plan is
part of a broad energy bill that
Congress expects to approve
next week. Its passage and ac-
ceptance by Ford would end a
10-month stalemate between the
White House and the Demo-
cratic-controlled Congress over
setting a national energy policy.
THE PRICING proposal of the
Senate-House conference com-
mittee, which has been working
on the energy bill sinceOct. 6,
/would result in a four-cent roll-
back in the retail price of a gal-
lon of gasoline within the next
14 months, economists estimate.
By 1980, gasoline prices would
/l ' be increased by about 7% to 91
cents a gallon above today's av-
erage price of 60 cents.
The conferees are expected to
complete work on other provi-
sions in the bill early next week.
THE COMPROMISE p 1 a n
would retain federal controls on
oil prices for 40 months, through
the spring of 1979.
John Hill, deputy administra-'
tor of the Federal Energy Ad-
ministration, told reporters the
' pricing provisions are unaccept-
able to Ford, mainly because
they do not allow special high
S < prices for oil from Alaska.
But in several hours of give-
AP Photo and-take, the conferees resolved
their own differences and moved'
closer than ever before to the
pricing policy advocated by the
aster un- Ford administration.
ago. Still U N D E R THE compromise
1976. measure, the average price of
U.S. crude oil would be rolled
back and then gradually allowed
' to {rise to compensate for infla-
tion and to provide greater in- have allowed oil prices to rise1
centive for increased produc- gradually to keep pace with in-1
tion. flation while removing federal
However, the increases could controls from about half the
not total more than 10 per centj U.S. oil that is subject to con-c
a year. Rep. John Dingell (D- trols.
Mich.), a conferee, said he had!
been assured that the adminis- IN 4S MONTHS, all controls
tration would oppose the Demo- would have expired.
cratic proposals. The majority of the Demo-l
Earlier yesterday, Hill told a crats on the conference com-
House Government Operations mittee want to retain controlsf
subcommittee that he was dis- for only 40 months - through
mayed that Congress has not March 1979-but would hold do-r
acted faster to deal with the mestic oil prices much lower'
nation's natural gas shortage. during that period.
Ford says higher prices would
HILL SAID that unless inter- force Americans to conserveI
state natural gas prices are de- fuel and would mean more
regulated, it will be necessary money for the oil industry to
to pass emergency legislation produce more energy.
each year "to deal with short- Democrats say it is far more
ages which will only continue to important to hold down fuel
worsen." prices during a time of infla-
At the conference on the! tion and high unemployment.
energy bill Dingell tried to gain! The current price controls,
acceptance of a plan that he which expire on Nov. 15, have
said was acceptable to Ford. held the price of 60 per cent of
The Dingell plan, rejected 4 U.S. oil production at $5.25 a
to 3, would have resulted in barrel while the oil that is free
higher consumer prices for fuel of controls sells for $14. That
after about 10 months. It would results in an average for all
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"THE EMERGENCY IN INDIA, 1975"
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U.S. production of $8.75 per
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The oil-price provisions are PURPLE
only the most controversial part
of the bulky energy bill. It also
would require manufacturers to E
almost double the fuel efficiency P<ANT
of new cars by 1985; give theme
president authority to ration t r
gasoline during an emergency;
and requirerstates to carry out
fuel-conservation programs, and
require some power plants to
use coal instead of oil or
natural gas as a boiler fuel.
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