2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 8. 1973
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LANCASTER, PA.
The question often being asked
these days about the energy
crisis is -- why now? Many
people, understandably so, are
puzzled as to why we are facing
present shortages when energy
never seemed to be a problem
before.
There is no one answer to the
question. But there are a series of
tbings that add up to at least a
partial explanation of what went
wrong.
In this column I would like to
list a few possible reasons for the
energy emergency we now face.
(1) The cut-off of crude'oil from
Arab nations. Arab oil accounted
for at least 6 percent of our total
crude supply.
(2) Although predictions ten
years ago showed that we would
face an energy crunch by the
mid-70s, those predictions were
pretty much ignored. Not only
that, but the predictions failed to
gauge the extent of our actual
energy usage, and we ended up
using far more fuel than the
experts thought possible.
(3) Predicted shortages in
cluded the building of facilities
that never got built. In other
words, we would have run short
even with things like the Alaskan
pipeline, but without those things
the crisis hit harder and came
earlier.
(4) We lack enough oil
refineries to produce the finished
petroleum products we require in
the quantities we need.
Refineries scheduled to be in
operation by now are not even
underway. Therefore, even if we
got plenty of crude oil, we would
not be able to process enough of it
to prevent some short supplies
from occurring.
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(5) Environmental concerns
made plants like power
generating stations convert from
coal to fuel oil. This put a drain of
millions of barrels of oil daily on
petroleum supplies.
(6) The switch from coal-to oil
meant that vital coal mining
operations were shut down which
now will take several months to
get going again as the switch
back to coal takes place.
(7) Nuclear power plant con
struction has not proceeded at the
predicted pace to provide ad
ditional electrical energy
sources. While there is cause for
certain safety concerns about
these plants when large numbers
of them begin to get concentrated
in one area, the fact remains that
this is the great potential energy
source for the immediate future.
Other sources of new power like
solar energy are in only the ex
perimental stage, and are long
term rather than short-term
solutions for the future.
(8) Cutting the oil depletion
allowance meant a curtailment of
exploration for new oil fields.
This, in turn, meant that oil
companies began to look to
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foreign supplies to meet a
growing demand.
(9) Otherjnations of the world
are now in a position to compete
with us economically for basic
needs like energy and food. This
has meant that our supplies of
those basic needs are available at
only increased prices. With our
wage and price control program,
American businessmen were not
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in a position to pay the higher
costs, and the result has added up
to shortages*
Nursing homes are the leading
inpatient health faculties in the
United States according to the
American Nursing Home
Association. In 1972 there were
1,142,000 nursing home beds,
compared to . 1,007,000 general
hospital beds.
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