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Show Moss Announces Sponsorship Of Oil-Gas-Coal Aid Legislation tection of an adequate domestic supply of energy is absolutely essential to national security, Sen. Moss said, "Prime Minister McMillan's experience in Moscow Mos-cow indicates a plunging thermometer ther-mometer in the cold war." Pointing out that coal producing produc-ing areas all over the nation have been going down hill, the Senator Sena-tor declared: "Unless a way can be found to provide the coal industry in-dustry a fair share of the nation's industrial business we must face the closing of many more mines and of the transportation systems Utah's Democratic Senator Frank E. Moss has announced co-sponsorship of legislation designed de-signed to aid the oil and coal industries by providing mandatory manda-tory restrictions on oil imports. The Senate bill, introduced by Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming provides for the establishment estab-lishment of import quotas on crude petroleum and petroleum products including residual fuel. It is the residual fuel restriction restric-tion that is expected to aid the coal industry. Residual fuel is what is left of petroleum after the more volatile gasoline , and lubricating oils have been taken off in the refining process. In his statement to the Senate announcing his stand, Senator Moss pointed out that imports of residual fuel were supplanting the use of 41 million tons of coal annually. The bill has been referred to the Senate Committee on Interior Inter-ior and Insular Affairs, of which the Utah Democrat is a member. After declaring that the pro- dependent upon them. A mine once closed is difficult to reopen. re-open. I do not need to detail what this would mean in a national na-tional emergency," he said. As part of his remarks Senator Moss inserted into the Congressional Congres-sional Record a newspaper account ac-count of a speech of Utah Representative Repre-sentative Frank C. Memmott of Carbon County. Given before the Utah House of Representatives, Representa-tives, it analyzed problems of coal producing areas in Utah and the nation. |