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Show foreign dependence that the temporary Iranian shutoff touched off a shortage, even though it was only 5 of our oil supply. We simply couldn't make up for it fast enough. He said the answer to the shortage is decontrol and increased production -vrithout a windfall profits tax. "President Carter finally fi-nally saw the light and called call-ed for decontrol of domestic oil prices, but he turned around and gutted its positive effects with a windfall profits prof-its tax. I'm no great fan of the oil companies, but their record at finding oil is a lot better than the federal fed-eral bureaucracy. I'd rather ra-ther force the oil companies to plow back their excess ex-cess profits into a search for new energy than take that money away from them and give it to the bureaucracy," bureau-cracy," he said. NO ENERGY CRISIS SAYS MARRIOTT Congressman Dan Marriott Mar-riott (R-Utah) said there is no energy crisis. TheUtahn told a group of about 350 Sperry Univac employees in Salt Lake that government policies and a cut off of oil from Iran have caused a shortage of crude oil, but that it is not a crisis and could be solved by making the right governmental decisions. de-cisions. Government policies of price controls over American Ameri-can produced oil have so constricted domestic producers pro-ducers and caused our |