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Show 32 Energy Edition, January, 1983 'Energy Hotline ' offers free information The Utah Energy Hotline, a telephone energy information service operated by the Utah Energy Office, is providing prompt, accurate and useful to information Utahns requesting information on energy related issues, according to a recent survey of Hotline users. Utahns who call the Energy e Hotline at or at receive free consumer and technical information on subjects such 533-FAC- T, toll-fre- as solar energy, conservation, insulation, tax credits, production, and a myriad of other topics relative resource to Information Ridge, Tennessee, making the Utah Energy Hotline the most and comprehensive service in information energy th Utah. specialists who operate the Generally, questions are Hotline employ extensive answered directly over the resources or refer phone and free brochures, callers to secondary sources publications and for answers to energy bibliographies are mailed to questions. Additionally, the callers addressing the specific Hotline has direct computer inquiry. access to the U.S. Department More than 100 survey of Energys Technical In- respondents were questioned formation Center in Oak on the accuracy and usefulness energy. se of the information they said they used more than half received from the Hotline. of the information they Additionally, they were asked received by mail and 30 perif they had taken any action to cent said they used all of it. save energy as a result of their Fifty-eigpercent of the respondents said they had experience with the Hotline. taken some measures to Survey respondents conserve energy as a result of happy of 70 the the information obtained from percent Nearly inthe Hotline. the said respondents More than 60 percent said formation they received was technically appropriate with they gained a better unonly 18 percent saying the derstanding of energy options information they received was available in Utah; 20 percent too general. Sixty-nin- e percent received help in purchasing andor installing a renewable energy system such as solar, wind, biomass, or hydro energy; and 25 percent learned more about nonrenewable energy resource production including coal, tar sands, oil shale, petroleum and natural ht gas. More than 80 percent said the Hotline operators were friendly and over 70 percent believed the operators were well-informe- d. Ninety-seve- n percent of the respondents said they would recommend the Hotline to others. The Utah Energy Hotline received more than 8,000 calls during 1981 Kjf!i Costs (Continued from Page 31) live in an area that is so rich in This is also "Color Country", an We're fortunate to natural resources. area abounding in natural beauty. Here, we can enjoy the Book Cliffs, Scofield Reservoir, the Skyline Drive, the San Rafael Swell, and a number of rivers including the mighty Green, the Price, and San Raphael. Great sandstone citadels and endless miles of fantastically carved cliffs, Huntington Lake, Fish Creek, Joe's Valley Reservoir and Cleveland Reservoir add to the beauty. Here, too, is the College of Eastern Utah and a variety of pleasant cities and towns in which to live. But, it was coal that first brought a population base to our communities in the late 19th century. With the immense deposits of this vital natural resource and the needs of our nation to return to coal as a major energy source, these cities and towns should continue to grow and prosper in the years to come. Here, also, is another resource ... a financial resource. We're the Commecial Security Banks of Price, Helper, and Green River. CSB is here to serve your financial needs. Count on us as a strong financial resource in this area of abundant natural both in design, manufacturing and the impact of scale. An argument is used, in respect to the development of longwall usage in the U.S.A., that they require more disciplined planning, supervision and operation than the more flexible room and pillar system, but this is difficult to sustain in light of the excellent results being achieved by some longwalls, and the commitment to the system by numerous large operators. The impact of first cost is probably a much more significant argument, since this, in many instances, precludes the smaller operator from being able to utilize the method. d) fZ) improvement Why worry? PRICE OFFICE 690 East South Main Phone: 637-511- 1 HELPER OFFICE 136 South Main Phone: 472-558- 3 GREEN RIVER OFFICE 305 North Braodway Phone: 564-348- 6 Member FDIC With this much coal in Utah why worry about energy fuel? Some 39.3 billion tons have been mapped and explored. And this is not all as only coal no deeper than 3,000 feet and beds no thicker than four feet are involved in this survey. That is enough to supply the whole country for the next half century at present use rates. |