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Solar energy
being held up?
By BENJAMIN SHORE
Copley News Service
WASHINGTON - One of
lhe more enduring con
spiracy theories concerning
the energy industry is that an
inventor working in his base
ment ior garage) laboratory
years ago developed a car
buretor that could deliver 100
miles a gallon, but the auto
ior oil) moguls bought the
rights for $1 million (or $lO
million) to keep it away from
the public.
The variation on that story
is the scientist who developed
a chemical which he could
make into little pills which
could be dropped into gas
tanks filled with water and
which then would burn in a
standard engine like gaso
line. He is also said to be mil
lions richer.
Today we have a new "con
spiracy” in the energy field,
but for a variety of reasons it
seems more plausible. It has
to do with solar power —
using the sun's heat and light
to heat and cool buildings and
produce electricity.
The conspiracy allegedly is
that the basic major energy
industries — oil, gas, coal,
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nuclear and the utilities — in
concert with malleable fed
eral agencies and an equally
malleable Congress have
deliberately retarded the
growth of the fledgling solar
power industry.
The argument utilizes such
basic facts as:
Exxon can’t control the
sun, sunshine is free, solar
heating and cooling is a
proved technique which could
greatly reduce the need for
traditional energy sources in
which huge investments have
been made, and the federal
government is reluctant to
spend more than token re
search money on harnessing
this energy source.
We haven’t seen the 100-
miles-per-gallon carburetor
or the water-into-gasoline
pill, but we know well the
endless, nonpolluting power
of the sun.
And for those who say
“show me” to the solar
power advocates, a three-day
exposition was held here re
cently, reportedly the first
major trade show in the field.
Fifty companies displaying
solar-power products ranging
from simple rooftop collec
tors that heat household
water to space-age genera
tion of electricity came to this
city with an open challenge to
the government and Congress
to admit that more could be
done faster.
Although the Federal
Energy Administration and
the Energy Research and De
velopment Administration
helped sponsor the event, the
bottom line is federal money
for research and develop
ment.
The SSO million budgeted
for the fiscal year just ending
(and the S7O million re
quested for the next fiscal
year) is considered tokenism
when measured against the
need for energy alternatives
in the United States.
Americans today can buy a
wide variety of reliable
equipment that will connect
their homes to the sun, but
like any new technology, it’s
more expensive than it ought
to be. The industry , made up
of many small firms, would
like more government help
with the costly research,
coupled with tax breaks and
low-cost home improvement
loans for citizens who buy the
products that lessen the need
for imported oil and gas.
And while there are some
members of Congress who
say the solar-power industry
should be helped, the con
spiracy theorists seem to de
light in predicting that the
giant basic energy industries
will succeed in keeping gov
ernment research and de
velopment funding and ac
tivity on the tokenism level.
“Os course, when General
Electric and Westinghouse
and the oil companies get a
firm grip on the (solar)
industry, then you’ll see the
federal coffers open up and
the incentive tax laws
passed,” ccnmented one
bitter executive of a little
firm making sun-powered
heat exchangers that cool
buildings.
Since you can actually buy
this equipment for your home
today, this conspiracy theory
isn't as much fun as the
mystery carburetor or pill.
But it is precisely the fact
of the equipment’s avail
ability and proved perform
ance that makes the question
on conspiracy seem worth
looking into.
President’s foes
have tough row
By JOHN PINKERMAN
Editor,
Copley News Service
At this point it is plain
foolishness to doubt the
ability of President Ford to
win renomination as the Re
publican candidate in 1976.
He has everything going for
him, and it is very likely he
will get stronger as the next
12 months move along.
Ronald Reagan has ex
pressed doubts about Mr.
Ford’s leadership, par
ticularly what he calls failure
to provide a “strong, lasting,
consistent foreign policy.”
Texan John B. Connally,
Democrat turned Republican
and recently cleared of
bribery in a court trial, seems
hesitant to endorse the Presi
dent’s 10-month leadership
record.
Sen. Charles H. Percy of
Illinois says a visit to his state
of Illinois caused him shock
when he found “paper thin”
support for Mr. Ford. Percy
called the President’s recent
tough energy speech “as
amateurish a presentation to
the nation as I’ve ever seen.”
Percy said he was seriously
considering opposing Mr.
Ford next year.
Percy hasn’t a prayer of
getting anywhere in opposing
Mr. Ford. Connally doesn’t
matter. Reagan is a possible
formidable foe — if the Presi
dent should run into the type
of scandal Richard Nixon did
or if he should encounter
some other domestic or for
eign policy disaster.
However, Mr. Ford not only
is doing well at home and
abroad but as a politician
with ’ >ts more experience
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Gov. Reagan, he is, one might
say, “cutting Reagan off at
the pass” with some cute
political maneuvering.
The full extent of this
maneuvering isn’t clear yet
but it has brought one major
beneficial result to the
present occupant of the White
House.
Twice in the last two
months Sen. Barry Gold
water, the patron saint of the
same conservatives who sup
port Reagan, has come out
without qualification in sup
port of Mr. Ford in ’76.
This situation could cause
Reagan to reconsider his vow
to stay within the Republican
Party in any presidential
route he might follow even
tually. And, if he needs a
nudge in going the third party
route he should read “The
Making of the New Majority
Party” by William A. Rusher
(Sheed and Ward Inc.).
Rusher, one of the most
authoritative conservative
voices in the nation, urges in
this new book that the conser
vatives of all parties band to
gether — not in a third party
scheme, but to form a new
major party. Then, Rusher
says as he speaks favorably
of Reagan, the battle lines
would be drawn clearly be
tween conservatives and
liberals. The old identifica
tions of Republican and
Democrat would be meaning
less under Rusher’s revolu
tionary plan which, he says,
would make the Conservative
Party clearly the majority
group.
This would seem to be
Reagan’s principal hope at
this point because Mr. Ford is
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doing other things to win back
conservative votes. Perhaps
the President has read “Kis
singer on the Couch” by con
servatives Phyllis Schlafly
and Chester Ward (Arlington
House). The authors rip the
secretary of state to tatters
as selling out America
abroad.
Mr. Ford, likely strictly to
coincidence but in a timely
manner nonetheless, now dis
plays a public image of
taking personal leadership
from Kissinger in foreign
policy negotiations. He made
this abundantly clear in his
quest for peace in the Middle
East. This does not mean he
downgraded Kissinger pub
licly in any way but his per
sonal “take charge” ap
proach to foreign affairs
might swing even more con
servative votes to his banner,
particularly among the Kis
singer critics.
Conservatives also rail at
the lack of action in the
Democratic Congress and
Mr. Ford must have pleased
them with his tough attack on
his former colleagues over
their delays in doing anything
substantive on the nation’s
energy problems. He also has
come down hard on money
bill vetoes — another tactic
sure to please conservatives.
In the meantime, the Presi
dent has maintained the high
degree of political morality
the White House so
desperately needed when he
took over last Aug. 9.
All of these tactics and de
velopments accompanying
them make him just about
unbeatable in his stated de
termination to be the GOP
candidate next year.
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, June 18,1975
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SCLC plans own probe
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (UPI)
— The head of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence Tuesday said the SCLC
will conduct its own investiga
tion into the arrest of a young
black man charged with the
murder of a white school
teacher.
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy
said the arrest of Christopher
Moore, 22, on the murder
charge is the result of “a
baseless concocted conspiracy
to frame him and railroad him
to the electric chair.”
Pascagoula authorities have
charged Moore with the stab
bing death of Mrs. Irene
Hoffman, who was dead in her
home last month.
Abernathy said blacks in
Pascagoula and Moss Point
would institute peaceful non
violent demonstrations and a
selective buying campaign to
protest Moore’s arrest.