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Show 1 Support given WASHINGTON, D.C.-Rep. D.C.-Rep. Dan Marriott (R-Utah) (R-Utah) announced recently that he "en- letting the price increase a little now," he said. "It's as simple as that." thusiastically" supports President . Reagan's . decision to accelerate the decontrol 4 ,ei. U .S . .j". oil marketing" and production. ; V "Price controls- have created an artificial market," he said. "They have caused the con-. sumer to imagine that the , value of oil is different dif-ferent than it actually is, ... and the producers and merchandisers have had to go along with this illusion. . The price of oil has not been allowed to follow market demand, so the incentive to produce has been taken away and the possibility of shortages exists. "By allowing the free market system to control the price of crude oil and its derivatives, production will be increased in-creased and the possibility of immediate shortages will be minimized.',' "Decontrol will also encourage both the public and private sectors to speed up their development of alternate energy sources, such as gasohol, solar and coal and provide a stimulus for the search and development of domestic oil. This will help lessen U.S. dependence on OPEC nations and place the country in a situation favorable to a stronger economic policy," he said. Marriott, who will be, respectively, the top and second ranking minority member of the House Interior Subcommittees on Mines and Mining and Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the House Interior Committee Com-mittee added that price increases will "inevitably" come, but that a small increase now is better than the alternative. alter-native. "We have a choice of either allowing demand to increase at a more rapid pace than supply or |