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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, December 14, 1973
MIRROR MORSELS
In a major move to coordinate
Federal energy policy and
allocation programs, PrMident
Nixon has established a new
Federal Energy Office under
the direction of Deputy
Treasury Secretary William E.
Simon.
Simon replaced Governor
John Love as the President’s
energy advisor, and hopefully
will be able to do what seven
other energy policy makers
have been unable to do in the
Nixon Administration. The
President, on December 4,
requested legislation im
plementing his Executive Order
creating the framework for the
new agency to provide for the
coordination of all Federal
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energy activities. On the date of
the y^ite House announcement.
I stated, as Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Govern
ment Operations, that public
hearings on the President’s
proposal would begin two days
later. At the opening of the
hearings on DMemter 6, I
announced my cosponsorship of
S. 2776, the Jackson-Ribicoff bill
which embodies the President’s
Federal Energy Administration
request.
In brief, the Federal Energy
Administration coordinates
under one agency the
development of domestic and
foreign policies relating to
energy resource management;
the implementation of
programs dealing with
energy production shortages,
such as fuel allocation and
possibly rationing; the
administration of voluntary and
mandatory energy conservation
programs; the promulgation of
energy price regulations; the
establishment of policies on
petroleum and energy imports
and exports; the im
plementation of a program to
develop our energy self-
sufficiency; the coordination of
energy policies with industry,
state and local governments,
and the public; and the
collection and dissimination of
energy information. Many have
advocated that this be done for
some months.
One of the greatest problems
involved in this situation is that
the American people do not
have a clear understanding of
the energy shortage and what
they must do to live with it.
Conflicting reports on this
subject q>pear constantly in the
press. Almost everyone has a
different opinion as to what
should be done. Time and again
I hear the despairing cry that
“nobody in Washington really
cares about what is hap
pening.’’
I would point out that Senator
Jackson warned about the
dangers of dependence on
foreign and particularly Mid-
East oil in June of 1972. Again in
Decembeof last year he said to
all who would hear: “I am
convinced that development of
a national energy policy is the
most critical problem-
domestic or international-
facing the nation today.’’ In my
newsletter of Decemter 7,1972,
more than a year ago, I pointed
out'that we had a fuel crisis, and
“in a real sense, it involves the
lives, fortunes, and destiny of
the country.’’ Since that time
many in the Congress, and I
must say with only nominal
encouragement from the Ad
ministration until very
recently, have sought to head
off this crisis.
Not only must the Ad
ministration now give the
American people the facts
about our energy requirements,
production, and resources, but
we need to furnish reliable
Men can know more than
their ancestors did if they start
with a knowledge of what their
ancestors had already learned.
That is why a society can be
progressive only if it conserves
its traditions.—Walter Lipp-
mann.
information so that individuals
and industry can make plans
and not have to grope in the
dark. The new Federal Energy
Administration must im
mediately staff offices and work
with state and local govern
ments and industry to fairly
allocate fuel supplies. I am
advised that a few days ago
the Atlanta office had more
than 5000 applications for fuel
allocations with available staff
to process onty 400 of those
applications. Fuel staffing for
regional offices is only now
inderway.
Time and again during the
Senate Government Operations
Committee hearings on this
l^islation, the point was made
that no energy program will
work unless the American
people understand the problem
and are assured that they will
be fairly treated in sharing
shortages.
Simon, the new ene^ czar,
comes into his post with a
reputation for his ability to
make tough and decisive
decisions. He will also need the
wisdom of a Solomon to
promote the national good as we
feel the impact of the energy
crisis.
Politeness comes from
within, ft*om the heart; but if
the forms of politeness are
dispensed with, the spirit and
the thing itself soon die away.—
John Hdl.
Among the many strange
servilities mistaken for pieties
one of the least lovely is that
which hopes to flatter God b^v
despising the world and
villifying human 'nature.—
Lewes.
Let us a little permit Nature
to take her own way; she better
understands her own affairs
than we.—Montaigne.
Sentimentally I am disposed
to harmony; but organically I
am incapable of a tune.—
Charles Lamb.
The young man who has not
wept is a savage, an the old man
who will not laugh is a fool.—
George Santayana.
I wonder why it is that we are
not all kinder to each other than
we are. How much the world
needs it! How easily it is
done!—Henry Drummond.
Advice, like snow, the softer it
falls the longer it dwells upon,
and the deeper it sinks into the
mind.—Coleridge.
To conceal anything from
those to whom I am attached is
not in my nature. I can never
close my lips where I have
opened my heart.—Charles
Dickens.
Ciriosity is a kernel of the
forbidden fruit which still
sticketh in the throat of a
natural man, sometimes to the
danger of choking.—Fuller.
Everybody has his own
theatre, in which he is manager,
actor, prompter, playwright,
boxkeejMr,-doorkeeper, all in
one, and audience into the
bargain.—Hare.
Dreams are the children of an
idle brain, begot of nothing but
vain fantasy; which is as thin of
substance as the air, and more
inconstant than the - wind.—
Shakespeare.
What wonderful things are
events! The least are of greater
importance than the most
sublime and comprehensive
speculations.—Beaconsfield.
The present hour is the
critical, decisive hour. Write it
on your heart that every day,
including today, is the b^t day
of the year.—Carlyle.
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