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. Page B8, July 25, 1979- North Shore News’

‘And fining up in America |

| By CHUCK BINS

plants and watching re-Tuns.
of ‘The Gong Show? You
gotta get. to work, to. the.
shopping center, to.. the’

mean business and they have
some desperate gas, junkies .
, “Who would have believed for clients. ;

in 1969" ‘that: ‘ten years later os

Americans would be'selling)§ In the New York ~-movies, to the “baseball |
out George Washington: for metropolitan -area, as game, to Aunt ‘Martha’s for. ;
gallon of gas? ~F ' elsewhere in the country, the dinner Saturday. nights: and: @
service stations seem like to ‘thé bowling alley on “
. The. late | sixties. Those. © ’ giant slaughtering houses. Wednesdays, right? .And_ “Building « on - the concept

were..the days. when you
could get your oil checked,

Motorists queue up to the
pumps waiting to have their
tanks topped. and their
n-your tank for five wallets drained. You get the |
The. gas.-retailers -feeling that some - ‘drivers _
Lin’ ‘competition ‘and---would: rather sacrifice their’
; : _ first-born. son.than.be caught
without gas onthe weekend. -

-, Some - of: them. even have |

_ cute little” ‘bumper Stickers ©."

letting Jimmy Carter and
Congress come up. “with an
energy package i is‘a'little bit

‘like .eating. Aunt Martha’s. i
“hodgepodge. stew—there are”

that numbers mean power,
one angry: consumer used
Nader's idea to circulate a
chain letter calling for an all-
‘ out boycott against one of
: r—oil—companies.
‘The letter reads, in part: “No.
* onein the. world understands

_. the ‘first law -of..economics

.better than ‘a° major oil °

‘everyone finds something
they don't like. ;

‘Ralph: Nader, a. ‘staunch ”

that ‘proclaim, “Friends of - believer in the. power ‘ofthe “company; ‘charge what the
OPEC” and “Timmy Carter: consumer, once’ Offered _ traffic will bear.’ They know
” Says. ‘Use peanut oil. n> some. advice: that: ‘Strikes a __ if they create-a large enough

‘more. ‘palatable. note in. ‘the ©:

‘shortage,’ as long as we have
face of. the. “current - ‘gas.

At, the ‘Office and. on ‘the’ a’. ‘buck, we'll .pay for

: . highways; the mood is‘cléar:.

OPEC countries,

trived by the oil. companies is
still a subject of debate. One
government survey ‘con-
cluded that the blame for the
current jump in gas prices
rests. evenly between the
the . oil
companies... and the gas
retailers. But if this three-
headed monster is at fault,

-blackballing one oil com-

pany seems to fall something
short of fair play.

Consumer -advisor David

surplus and-in turn other
nations would be backed up
with gasoline... ;

Squeezing OPEC by as
little as five million barrels a
day (a tenth of the non-
communist nations’ C¢on-
sumption and a sixth of

OPEC's current output)
would go a long. way to
stalling the upsurge in
prices.

So if you're sick: and tired

. Horowitz suggested a more of it and-can’t take driving

.. erunch: The: consumer,’ he " gas...We - feel if (this par- even-handed approach. Ona _-past the gas pump and seeing

car pooling and the 55 mph ‘said, doesn’t have to be at eularoilcompany)wantsto recent episode of ‘The the numbers change faster

Speed limit: are foro old ladies. ‘the mercy: of. large cor-— withhold gasoline, we think Tonight Show,’ hé told than you can. say «“gas

~ the porations, if as ‘individuals, ”° itis our duty to help them.” Carson and his nationwide - rationing,” perhaps: ” you

7 ould —conn Up th "audience that if everyone sho give it a € to:

idge.” Over i , - - one another in large enough THREE-HEADED would cut their consumption five gallons a week. If it

i ‘Somebody out there o what's a ‘serious groups to. effectively do ‘MONSTER — by just three to five: gallons a.’ doesn’t work, wé could be.

2, th coik consumer to do—sit athome battle. Smart guy, that To what extent'the current week, “We. would”: ‘. under, rather than just over,
all summer Watering: the Naderis. gas crisis ‘is actually con-.

- Westcoast Transmission
announced today it has
' engaged consultants to assist
in preparing preliminary
‘design and construction
costs’ for a natural gas
pipeline. from -the Lower
Mainland to Vancouver
- -Asland.

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© Repack wheel bearings (check seal) ® Check brake hardware
~o ° Machine drums & rotors © Check master cylinder & hydraulic Let me be
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enough gasoline to: creaté: a - that proverbial barrel of oil.

Brown & Root, Inc., an
international engineering
and construction firm which |
has done considerable work’
including the ‘construction of
pipelines in the prolific
North Sea gas and oil fields,
will carry out the work for
Westcoast.

If a pipeline across the
Strait of Georgia is proven

economically feasible,
Westcoast _will make an
application to the ap-

‘propriate authorities to
construct the line and supply
natural gas to Wancouver
Island, the company said. ,
. LA leading ‘proponent of an
underwater gas line to
Vancouver Island, West-
pi feasibility

made applicatio to con-
struct such a system in 1972.

The application was shelved
however when hearings
before the then Public
Utilities Commission were
terminated.

Subsequently a gas supply
Shortage developed.
However, exploration for,
and discovery of new gas
fields in northeastern British
Columbia have boomed in

recent years and new
reserves have been
established.

With a plentiful gas supply
and rising oil prices,
Westcoast in recent months
has revived its Vancouver
Island pipeline studies and
they are now being ac-
celerated, the company
Stated.
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