Show It Can Be Licked Those familiar with available supplies and arid potential reserves reserves of oC oil natural gas and coal h have ve said repeatedly that there need be no critical energy crisis such as many have accepted as able They have repeatedly called for fora a national en energy policy and the stimulation stimulation of technology and Incentives aimed at encouraging exploration for new energy sources and the development of new forms of oC energy According to a top official of oC the American Gas Association Coal the most promising single technological Advancement cement in the field of developing substitute natural gas supplies A Joint industry government stry research effort is underway to perfect coal gas gas- The effort involves a year four pilot plant program designed to select elements of each of the coal gasification processes which offer the greatest promise of oC success in demonstration demonstration demon demon- plants Over the past decade or more the theUS US U.S. natural gas industry has become a dominant factor in the energy picture pic pic- ture It will continue to be so in the future but supplemental sources such as coal gasification arc are necessary All of these things exploration of oC new resources development of new technology technology technology techno techno- logy in coal gasification and other energy depend areas upon price Incentives incentives incentives tives and public policies that have but one end nd in view That end is the acceptance of oC the he energy crisis as a fact of life and a determination to lick it with typical Yankee ingenuity and resource resource- |