| Show Garn telis solutions to energy problems The facing Americans today can be overcome through a combination of short and long-term especially the government out of the energy said U.S. Senator Jack Congress and the President are willing to take the political there are some solutions which could relieve the present crunch as early as this Garn this would mean relaxing the government's regulatory grip on the production and distribution of Garn favors the temporary relaxation of air quality not enough to violate primary or secondary health If the American people were given the choice between increased fuel availability and rigid air quality I'm certain they would agree that a temporary relaxation is in Gam am confident that America can return to an era of plentiful gas if we begin to take the necessary steps he include removal of government controls from the development of alternate sources of and reasonable conservation he Federal interference in the energy industry in the form of artificial price allocations and entitlement policies totally distorted the market and stifled Garn Department of with its budget totaling more than all the combined profits of American's oil companies last has only succeeded in further complicating our energy he DOE is a morass of contra die one year requiring conversion to then the next year changing to and then back to Garn top of you have clean air standards that won't allow the use of It's a horrendous example of inefficient federal the Utahn Garn also strongly criticized the government's entitlement which have forced many smaller oil companies to depend on foreign smaller company had to pay million to one of the giants to make up for the higher cost of foreign he makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to penalize domestic companies for producing less costly but this is typical of the illogical approach the federal government has toward energy the government gets out of the energy business this nation will never turn the corner in solving this most critical he Garn has long supported the decontrol of crude oil and was encouraged by President Carter's announcement to do In response to the common complaint that the nation's present shortages are the result of collusion between oil companies to force higher Garn might be easy to blame our current troubles on that but it is neither reasonable nor While the oil companies certainly are not I believe the major culprit in our energy problem is the federal he Garn is a co-sponsor of legislation which would levy a 90 percent tax on oil companies' if they are not reinvested in Possible long-term solutions include development of alternate fuels such as tar oil and low-sulfer coal all of which are plentiful in he indicate Utah contains enough coal reserves to power this country for a few hundred Garn pointed when you have a government whose red tape requires a 5 to 8 year delay in opening a new coal mine on public you are not encouraging coal tar sands reserves in Utah could equal the oil reserves of Saudi he the red tape is constantly inhibiting its |
