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T AI j 1 t i t I f jt t V A J r i t l' l r. r r I TH E FIVE THOUSAND producers of gas gas to to more consumers have been bee suspended since Oil What Is s The Natural Gas and JL natural gas large gas large and small small believe believe regulation took effect that the the free competitive system which R Resources eso C Committee om tt e. e has increased your gas supplies and arid kept Has Hasn't t Gas A Always ways Been Bee Regulated It is ma made e up of of companies compani and individuals concerned con con- rates low is the best for consumers for forthe corned with natural gas I It includes a great many the th the I Gas d distribution tr yes It makes sense to have only large and small and oil producers All believe e industry an and d t Ie economy gas one pIpe pipeline in e b. b bring gas to a community community and t y-an y and d. d one onegas there is fi 1 b believe the 18 no more reason for OPA-like OPA price fixing They hey proposal to abandon n distribute it in the Both community gas company than steel coal shoes on gas on autos meat or oes competition and clamp bureaucratic do a good efficient job for you and as monopolies which could be next All believe that free competition controls on gas production will hurt consumers con con- conthey they are naturally regulated tion is better for all of us than a price-controlled price sumers dal damage the the die industry and benefit But Bu theres there's no monopoly in finding gas Far economy which has historically led to stagnation no one OtiC from it Gas production is IS risky and keenly com com- scarcity and rationing There are five thousand large and small Here are some answers to questions s producers looking for gas gas and and finding Ending it in only What Can I 1 Do as have this a u consumer you on may one out of ev every every ry nine exploratory wells they drill vi vital tal issue vigorously to sell their gas A single You can reason out the issues s reach your own conclusions and make those conclusions known pipeline may buy from or more producers What lal I Is S PI This I. I R Regulation l tOil a c to your friends and neighbors Is Gas Different from Coal Oil Sixteen years after fter a 1938 law was passed a new or interpretation of some of its words now forces the tho or or Grain Under free competition Federal Power Commission to do what it has eleven times refused to do do try dotry try to fix the price It I t t A And n d if th theres there's ere s price fixing fixin g Ii for or na natural tur a 1 gas gas without federal regulation regulation- at the well so can there be next ned for coal at the that an interstate pipeline pays the competing com com- it e Natural gas became plentiful plentiful out out output producers who find the gas and get it from mine mine or r oil at the w well well well-or or ll-or or lumber in the forest put rose two wo hundred bundred per cent in inthe inthe th the e ground d or grain gram on the farm the past sixteen years Natural gas st stayed reasonable reasonable- T Will il This R Regulation Reduce How rr D Did J The PI I. I Ie Consumer R Fare are and gas prices to the consumer rose only one-eleventh one as much as liv- liv Our Gas Bills B Before fore This Tilis Regulation sing costs in the past sixteen years Here Heren Hereit I the record ecord In n the past 16 nat natural al O a Natural gas has bas helped create thousands thousands thou thou- Hardly Harrity Only about 10 of the average gas bill Ml years sands of f jobs in industry and now goes to the producer who finds tb the gas and nd sells gas production has increased and the price supplies one fourth of the nations nation's it The other 90 pays for constructing maintaining main main- the e consumer paid for g gas ha has r risen n only 1 l as energy resources an and d opera operating tin g th the e I long distance ong d' d pIpe pipelines in es much as the general cost of living NO NOW 01 0 cumbersome federal and local distribution systems systems already regulated controls threaten all this progress Do Only Dilly A Few Big Com Companies FOR MORE FACTS WRITE WRITH FOR How Will Trill Regulation Affect Supply Produce Gas THIS TillS BOOKLET It will reduce the supply Most Moat natural gas is No The largest 37 companies produce less than this You new new have government the right to regulation regulation-a know the a facts acta peacetime ab about ut produced by wildcatters and lind other control of or free competitive half the nations nation's gas No single company produces They are used 1 to k keen een competition 00 n an and d b. b big 19 more than 5 The small P producers do more exploratory ex ex- for Cor producers the booklet Send Natural today Ny risks But put them under Federal controls controls- than do all aU the NATURAL GAP drilling Gas Gas Gas-A A big companies Key Re Resource oune with permits endless ions forms lii bearings hearings combined And none of ot the producers has any in Jeopardy and suits and and the of is work ism sure exclusive monopoly any ve franchise or any proto pro pro- to suffer Buffer Three new pipeline project cis to bring tec on ROO ROCKY Y MOUNTAIN NATURAL GAS AND OIL j e v RESOURCES COMMITTEE c t J r l h r t. l George F. F McMillan Chairman 1330 Leyden Denver 20 Colorado |