18 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 2, 1975 StjfED ESHLEMAH’S mSHIHGTON REPORT The energy questions facing Congress and the Nation are so complicated that any action pertaining to them becomes confusing. Recently I cast two votes regarding oil policy that I am going to try to explain in this column because each vote, in its own way, represented a fundamental Look neighbor... THAT’S BIG VOLUME YOU CAN COUNT ON US AGRI-EQUIP. I. G.'s AG. SALES RD#2 Farmersville Ephrata PA Rt 113 Box 200 Silverdale PA 717 354-4271 215-257 5135 ROY 0. CHRISTMAN LANDIS BROTHERS INC. RDI (Shartlesville) Hamburg PA 19526 1305 Manheim Pike 215 562-7218 or 215 488 1904 Lancaster PA 717 393 3906 DEPENDABLE MOTOR CO. HENRY S. LAPP cast Mam Street Honey Brook PA RDI Cams Gap PA 17527 215 273 3131 717 442 8134 ERB & HENRY EQUIP., INC. CARL L. SHIRK 22 26 Henry Avenue New Perlmvtlle PA 5 Ccleorook Road Leoanon PA 215 367 2169 717 274 1436 GRUMELLi FARM SERVICE M. E. 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Therefore, I voted to continue the con trols on oil costs, although that does not mean there cannot or should not be adjustments to the price structure in the future The second vote was concerned with the Presidnet’s veto of a congressional proposal to roll back oil prices In this instance I voted to support the Presidnet’s view that a roll back would be com pletely irresponsible. This view also represented the feeling of many others in cluding newspapers of widely divergent views such as the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Assistant secretary of agriculture named Richard E Bell has been appointed assistant secretary of agriculture for international affairs and commodity programs, ac cording to Paul H. Keeney Chairman of Berks County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Com mittee. Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz administered the oath of office to the career official who joined the Department of Agriculture 16 years ago and who has seved as deputy assistant secretary of agriculture for internatinal affairs and commodity programs since June 1973. Bell, 41, succeeds Clayton Yeutter of Lincoln, Neb, who resigned to become the President’s deputy special trade representative. Born January 7, 1934 in Clinton, 111., Bell grew up on a corn-soybean-livestock farm in central Illinois. He joined the Department’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) in 1959 after obtaining his B.S. (cum laude) and M S degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Illinios at Urbana. Bell worked as an The Post called the roll back plan “a disastrously bad idea”. Why’ Chiefly because the end result would be no new production of American oil. A study done by one of the country’s leading liberals, and one who certainly is not likely to be supporting the oil company position, revealed that a price of $12.73 a barrel is needed to procude new oil at a reasonable profit. Yet, the roll back price would have been five dollars below that floor. No one would gamble on oil production at a loss of five dollars on every barrel. With no new domestic oil we would be foced to turn to the Arabs for our petroleum needs. We would announce to them that we have quit exploring for oil in the U.S., and by the end of 1976, we would be dependent on them for more than half our petroleum demand. Then what would happen to the price? The oil producing nations have already announced they will be substantially increasing the world oil price this fall. If we became largely depen dent on them for the fuel we must have, the price would continue to go up and up and we would have no control over the situation and no choice but to pay the going price. Sure, there’s plenty of oil around now if we continue to import more and more if it But do we really want to subject ourselves to price blackmail, or even worse the blackmail or threatening a cut-off of supplies? No responsible legislation can propose that kind of alter native It’s a tough issue Price increases in oil will not be popular but are inevitable no matter what road we take I’m going to continue my efforts of trying to make sure that it’s oil production and not oil profits that we’ll be buying Because for all of the confusion and complications the chief issue is reallj i ather simple - we must have energy independence economic analyst on Soviet agriculture in FAS here until late 1961 when he was ap pointed assistant agricultural attache at the American embassy on Ot tawa, Canada. He sub sequently served as assistant agricultural at tache at the American embassy in Brussels, Belgium and as agricultural attache at the American embassy in Dublin, Ireland. 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Thay pay tarlhamaalvas in no time' Earlier this year, he received the Distinguished Service Award, the Department’s highest honor, for this leadership in in ternational trade. In 1973, he received the Department’s Superior Service award for his work in promoting wheat exports. In his new post, Bell will direct the operations of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and the Foreign Agricultural Service. He will also serve as a member of the board of directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.
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