Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-23 | Page 2 | Exhaustion of Fuel Oil on West Coast Feared

I EXHAUSTION OF FUEL OIL ON WEST COAST FEARED SAN FRANCISCO, OoL 38 One third of the Pacific coast'.- visible supply sup-ply of fuel oil is exhausted and exhaustion ex-haustion of the remaining supply is threatened unless hydro-electric enei - is substituted, n M. Poison, form r Kiierjii fuel o-.l administrator for tin wcsieru states, told the Commonwealth club here Friday, "At present the Pacific coast is dependent de-pendent upon oil for over sevenli per nt of the consumed heal, IlKht and power," he said. "There is no artificial shortage which confronts ihe community, it Is niu.ii .uid Immediate, There Is only -1 limited area m California which ha en a possibility, of oil and each month soes some portion of thut area lesieri uid condemned by the failure; of; wild cat wells. Copper mines in Arizona, Nevada! ' nd Utah an many industries in Washington Wash-ington and Oregon already have been, forced back to coal "In the end hydroelectric power must replace oil on land wherever it .. possible to make the substitution. " Kolson said that the communities have been too anxious in the past to I get energy cheaply "If we want power for the future -.lime one will have to pav for It." he said.