—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, lune 23,1979 124 U.S. energy policy inefficient termed WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. - The president of a major U.S. petroleum company on Monday characterized American government energy policies as evidenced by “inefficiency, aggravated by myopia,” and suggested several actions to relieve current and future fuel shortages. John R. Grey, president. Standard Oil Co. of California, speaking at The Fertilizer Institute annual Marketing Conference, held here, urged both state and federal legislators to face the need for long range national action. “An im mediate requirement is to back away in earnest at ... red tape that has bound and mummified vital energy projects.” An example given was the frustrated effort of Sohio to build a pipeline to move Alaskan oil to the Southwest Grey stressed that the most immediate need is for fuel conservation, par ticularly of gasoline. He said that economists with his company estimate that if every American who drives would save just one gallon of gasoline per week by driving less, the present shortage would disappear. Industry and homeowners already have made significant strides in conservation of fuels, he noted, but more must be done to reduce dependency on imported oil. Grey agreed with fuel priority for agriculture, be told the group of fertilizer industry executives. “The U.S. must be able to fuel and fertilize the farms,” if we hope to continue to feed our nation and much of the world. Chevron, he pledged, will continue to serve all of its farm-related customers at 100 per cent of their gasoline needs. “We have never needed government to tell us our obligation to American farms,” he noted, and added that even before government rulings granting 100 percent diesel requirements to agriculture, Chevron was treating farm diesel fuel needs exactly as farm gasoline priorities. Government, Grey stressed, must seek a more reasonable balance between desirable environmental goals and needed energy development. A hopeful step, he noted, is the government offering in late June of California off-shore oil leases, the first such sale in the Santa Barbara channel in 10 years. That lengthy delay, he charged, is “almost wholly due to poorly informed and greatly exaggerated environmental fears, along with a rather astonishing disregard of America’s great need for more domestic oil and gas.” Special attention must be paid to further coal development, Grey urged. “Coal has enormous potential as a source of liquid fuels.” But, increased coal production and use, called for by the President, “has been stymied by legalistic and bureaucratic manuevering to the point where, as coal producers complain, ‘We can’t dig it, and you can’t bum it’.” Development of North American reserves of tar sands and oil shale hold great energy promise, as does research on wind and solar energy sources, he said. Nuclear energy, obviously confronted currently with difficulties, still must not be dismissed as a resource, Grey emphasized, and added that nuclear power supplies the equivalent of 1.5 million barrels of oil per day. 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