Show Jack-Straws By Jack Wallis During the past our confidence in some of our political leaders in Washington has really been It all started off Tuesday of last week at the regular Vernal Area Chamber of Commerce meeting when J.L. public affairs area manager for Chevron do not have an energy but a shortage of common sense in He said we use one-third of the world's energy and import one-half of our crude oil resulting in an annual billion drain on the Christensen said that the newly-organized Department of Energy during its first year in existence employed persons and spent This is more money than the combined profits of all the oil companies in the he pointed Then Saturday we listened to Jack Anderson say how vulnerable we were to foreign countries because one-half of our life-blood came from Then he told how inexperienced the President of the U.S. was concerning foreign He said foreign nations had taken more economic wealth out of the by the conspiracy of crude oil prices than the Spanish conquest or than England took from her commonwealth Anderson said that a bushel of wheat and a barrel of oil used to cost the about Now a bushel of wheat brings about and a barrel of oil to The foreign nations know we need the oil so they keep raising the But the U.S. will not exploit other nations because they need our Then the story came out In both of the Salt Lake papers quoting James who was President Carter's former speech telling how ignorant Carter was concerning his Then to top it we listened to President Carter's response during the Monday evening TV news concerning the high first quarter profits the oil companies were reporting e of deregulation causing the of petroleum products to Carter said he would tax these so the wind-fall of deregulation would not all go to the large oil He said he knew the oil companies would not plow back all their profits derived from deregulation for the exploration of an increased supply of so he planned to call for a 50 percent tax on these If the government is spending more in its Department of Energy than the oil companies make and yet doesn't contribute one barrel of oil to our why should we not trust the oil companies to back their increased profits to increase the domestic supply of crude oil and further improve their economic What good will it do for the government to take half of the profits away from the oil If their profits go back into the how many more barrels of oil will it Things sure look mixed Friday is Arbor and Bird On Arbor Day we are all encouraged to plant a but Bird Day has us wondering as to its This could be the climax to our problems by the saying has gone to the But we guess the real meaning of Bird Day is to more fully appreciate the value of our birds in As the month of April is coming to a we hope we make it through all the activities that have been scheduled for the month of May in our May is going to be a The state Lions convention and Square Dance festival will be held here in We have two weekends of Sidewalk Mother's high school graduation Livestock Show and Memorial Day and fishing season opening is June All we need now to really climax the month is to have the Main Street construction work start blocking off this main If we can make it through we may make it through the |