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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand November 25f 1976 The Utah Independent Page 7 THE ENERGY SHORTAGE melting the fuel in the reactor core. However, the safely design of reactors includes systems to prevent the overheating of the fuel and to control potential releases of radioactivity from the fuel.. On the subject of possible dangers to health from nuclear reactors, Jeffrey St. John in his syndicated column of May 18, 1976, quoted nuclear physicist Dr. Edward Teller as saying: We have managed to establish defenses against possible health hazards. This does not mean that the health of each and every one is forever secure. The unforeseen always might happen. But we succeeded in making such injury so improbable not one single one has as yet occured." (Emphasis added) The Naderite environmentalists harp on the dangers of nuclear waste. Ralph de Toledano, in his October 8, 1975, column, put this myth to rest in the following words: If all of our electric power were the produced by nuclear plants the 10 annual amount of waste per person would, according to nuclear scientists, be about the size of an aspirin tablet. Compare this to the 320 pounds per person of waste from coal-firplants, 32 pounds of which go into the air and may. cause cancer.' ed bigger. The Standard Oil Company of Indiana (Amoco) figures it has spun out 636 miles of red tape computer tape on which the firm has stored information demanded by the FEA. That's almost enough to stretch from the company's oil-produ- head- growth," it is repeating the plan proposed by Henry Kissinger and other front-m- en for the Council on Foreign Relations whose goal is One World government in which the United States would be a mere province. When Robert Seamans, head of the Development Energy Research andWe've Administration echoes: got to put a brake on the use of energy," it should be noted that Seamans is a member of the no CFR. In this connection, William Hoar in his cing version? living.... Our economy Order. In a column which appeared in the DENVER POST of April 5, 1976, John D. Lofton,' Jr., stated: degrees of control over every American taxpayer will be discussed in following chapters. AMERICAN 1 NOTE DISCOUNTS FOR QUANTITY ORDERS 25 copies $1.50 copy $18.75 5 copies - $4.50 iu copies - $o.25 s Payment of $ 50 copies 100 $36.00 copies - $67. OU .copies of The Federal Monster by Phoebe Courtney (160 pages, paperback, indexed) .is enclosed. (Please send check or money order) Mrs. Mr. Miss Street 22, 1976, the FEA has 3,400 employees and an annual budget of $142 million. Salaries at the FEA are plush: 37 FEA officials earn $37,800 a year or more. The average salary in the agency is The EPA and the FEA are only two of the federal regulating agencies. Other federal regulators who exercise varying nist Please send me is being sabotaged for merger in a Socialist New World wth Littleton, Colorado 80120 It means higher unand a lower standard of employment When you get right down to it, the environmentalists are pushing for a rate in the economy, a kind of paralysis. THE INDEPENDENT P.0. Box 636 OPINION The clear course which has been . set for us is one of no growth. What is that if not economic sub- Even back in August of 1973, columnist Ralph de Toledano s aw what was happening and warned: anti-expansio- in ld, shortage. But our leaders are not promoting the American way. d article ed stated that the same line is promoted by such stalwarts of the CFR as Robert O. Anderson of Atlantic-RichfieRichard Barnet of the Institute for Policy Studies, Lester Brown of Worldwatch,' U.N. Ambassador John Scali, Senator George McGovern, and scores of other members of the Council on Foreign Relations. According to Hoar: The American way to overcome a shortage is to produce more goods. What this country needs iff less government interference, not more. Left to its own devices", American ingenuity and resourcefulness could do away with any no-gro- previously-mention- AMERICAN WHATS BEHIND THE ENERGY CRISIS? to an editorial in the (Va.) NEWS LEADER of March pe . . According Incredibly, despite all his Government-red-tanumerous anti-B- ig speeches. President Ford intends to ask Congress to extend the life of this bureaucratic monstrosity three more years and to triple its $142 million budget to about $440 million, partly so the agency can add 700 more employees to its present 3,400. Continuing Lofton charged: Since its original formation as the Federal Energy Office in late 1973 after the onset of the Arab oil embargo, this agency has been an absolute disaster, stifling competition, increasing costs to the consumer and ballooning the already because without an expanding energy production there can be no new industries, no new jobs, in these United States. This can only mean a significant drop in the standard of living. Exactly so. And it was planned that way. When the Ford Foundation urges in A Time To Choose" that we cut energy growth in half, and eventually fall to According to J. Dale Jackson, accounting coordinator for Amoco, the firm must now place approximately 27,000 longdistance calls a year to Washington, up from only about 1,300 five years ago. The REVIEW OF THE NEWS Of March 26, 1975, reported on a speech made by Congressman Jack Kemp in which he stated that the bureaucratic cost of all the Federal Energy Administration controls amounts to an estimated 3 cents to 5 cents a gallon. This is a burden on consumers of roughly $10 billion every year. Thus, consumers already overburdened by direct taxes on fuels are having to pay this much more in the price at $10 billion a year the pump and tank because of the added American consumers who buy gasoline and heating oil have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in higher prices thanks to the load of paperwork with which the Federal Energy Administration (FEA) has burdened the oil companies $19,026. erations quarters in Chicago to Washington, D.C. Just to keep up with the changing federal decrees, Amoco has' had to hire 100 full-tiworkers who each year file with the Federal Energy Administration some 9,600 pages of reports and over 225,000 pages of computer printouts. THE REGULATORS OF THE FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION RICHMOND No growth for our energy Industries means no growth for coming gen- bureaucracy even cost of doing business ty and distributing companies required . by FEA controls. ADVANTAGES OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS Ralph de Toledano also pointed out that in the first half of 1975, U.S. nuclear power plants produced electricity at 43.6 less in total cost than plants using coal or oil. This saved consumers $670 million, as well as 115 million barrels of oil. The cost per kilowatt hour of electricity produced by nuclear plants, 11.41 mills as' compared with 20.23 mills for fossil-fuel- ed (coal, oil, natural gas) plants also includes all amortized capital allocations for the cost of building the nuclear power plants. Energy produced by nuclear reactors is the cleanest of all fuels. However, because of the actions of the environmentalists and the federal regulators, the American people are being denied which also-coulthis urgently needed energy save the consumers large sums of money on electricity bills each month. federal me that current figure is about bloated City and State Now Zip Code . AN AMERICANIST VIEWPOINT that the American GRACE HAMILTON have lost another majority presidential election, its time to go to work on the issues real that were ignored by deliberately Tweedle-du- m and Tweedle-de- e. the During primary, Reagan made political hay by bringing up the Panama Canal but controversy, Panama Canal. The Senate must approve any scheme proposed by the State Department, which would take away the rights of the United States to own and operate the Canal. Even though the dust of the political charade has settled, still work to be there done. Patriotic Americans do not go back to sleep after an election. Apparently, the 40,000 Americans who live in the Canal Zone are not asleep. A United Stafes District Court judge has ordered Ford nor Carter the key issues, pursued More than likely, the new President will continue to allow Mr. Kissinger or his successor to arrange the outright gift of the Canal to the Communists. However, Congress not the President President has the final say so over the Secretary neither . Ford of to suspend the negotiations with Panama for a new panama Canal treaty, A petition from the Canal Zone Central Labor Union brought before the that the judge charged threaten to negotiations due without jnfhnge, on law the of process property an(j liberty of 40 ooo Americans who work in the CanaJ Zone petjti0n claimed that Congress must authorize a continuation of the talks. In to Ford and addition Bunker Ellsworth Kissinger, and was named as a defendant, State Bunker will be remembered Kissinger for his negotiations in we and all know Vietnam who won that argument! Blessings on that judge who agreed that Ford, Kissinger and Bunker had unlawfully assumed the powers of the U.S. Congress. in The good judge Panama has spoken. Now, let us tell our Senators to take their back to the responsibilities American people and the Constitution. Readers' comments and welcome. are questions Please write us at The American Way Features", P.O. Box 990, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863. -- |