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Qui spring be far away if the sea gulls are flying around?
Speaker calk for long- range energy plans
By Kevin Field
Uncertainty is the biggest problem fac
ing this country today, according to V.
Kerry Smith, a senior fellow with Re
sources for the Future, Inc.
The non-profit, Washington based firm
works with economic problems dealing
with the environment.
Smith, who earned his Phi), in econom
ies at Rutgers University , was at UNL early
this week under the Visiting Scholars Pro
gram. He spoke at the College of Business
Administration.
In an interview, he expressed his views
on the energy problem and the current
economic situation.
Smith said he believes the country's
biggest problem is an uncertainty in the
business community about the unstable
energy climate.
lie believes some type of long-range
planning department is needed in the gov
ernment. That way businesses could more
readily predict the outcome of long-term
investments.
"When you are unsure of something, the
tendency is to wait and see what happens.
Most policy makers don't seem to appreci
ate this fact," Smith said.
Too difficult
He said it was too difficult to make in
telligent estimates on the future gas price
level.
"The international uncertainties are too
great. The current price would at least
double if oil for gasoline that is sold
domestically were to be sold at world
prices," he added.
you can not expect prices to reflect true
scarcity," he said.
Coal is the energy source for the future,
he said, but until problems in complying
with pollution control are solved we can
not rely heavily on coal. Smith said he does
not see solar energy as a likely source for
Iran and Saudi Aratua hold the cards the near future using present technology.
and what they do in the world situation is
critical in determining whether gas ration
ing is in our near future, he said.
If Iran does not get back in the world
oil market, or near its previous production
level, we could be looking at a short term
problem. Oil development in Mexico can
offset the Iran' algrrincance in world oil
production, but that is stil three years
away, he added.
Many people are concerned about the
future of their cars, but he Said there is too
much investment in cars as a means of
transportation for much concern.
As oil prices continue to rise, it will
soon be economically profitable to develop
other carbon sources for combustion.
OH scarcity
Smith also believes that because of
OPEC and the Iranian problem, current
prices are not true reflections of the
scarcity of oil.
"Anytime you introduce into a market
an agent that has power (such as OPEC)
The best source of future energy lies in
nuclear fusion, he said. Fusion is the
opposite of fission. It produces more
energy and does not leave behind the harm
ful waste products of fission. However, it is
still a number of years away in develop
ment, he said.
He described Carter's inflation pokey as
a sophisticated form of an old jawboning
procedure applying informal pressure to
maintain prices and wages. Since the gov
ernment cannot pressure unions, Smith
said, he gives the policy a SO-SO chance of
success.
He said the next logical step is wage and
price controls as practiced during the
Nixon administration.
Pacifist says
to open eyes
By Liz Austin
If a person looks out at the world with
his eyes wide open, he might see a never
ending concrete wall, according to a pro
fessional pacifist agitator.
Igal Roodenko, a pacifist agitator since
the 1930s, told UNL students Wednesday
that a person's first feelings about the wall
might be that there k no way around it.
Roodenko said he uses the concrete wall
analogy to represent his fight against issues
he opposes. Roodenko participated in the
first freedom ride into the South, was
jailed for demonstrating at the Soviet Mis
sion to the United Nations in support of
jailed Russian dissent writers and was ar
rested last April for demonstrating at
the site of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant
in Barnwell, S.C.
"You see, if you look at the wall and
squint, as I did, then you will find a very
small crack," he said. "You will find the
wisdom of the grass seed because the grass
seed knows concrete doesn't last forever."
But the grass seed doesn't try to push
through the concrete immediately,
Roodenko said. Instead it takes it slowly,
he said.
According to Roodenko this is what
people working for a cause should do.
"I don't want total revolutionaries," he
said. "I want people who will go as far as
they can and then gradually take another
step and then another."
To do this people have to be able to
communicate to others, he said, adding
that to simply know something is wrong
doesn't change it.
Roodenko said he sees the mind as a
computer. If limited and false information
is put into a mind then that is what will
come out, he explained.
According to Roodenko the human
mind has three weaknesses. The first is a
trap smart people fall into by believing
they are too smart.
The second weakness is the mind's habit
to center on the "garbage in life," he said.
If one hitchhiker beats up the person who
gave him a ride, then it is broadcast loudly
he said. But, he said, no one ever hears of
the good results from others hitchhiking
that same day.
The last weakness humans seem to fall
into is an eitheror type of thinking, he
said.
For example, politicians will say either
whip the communists in Russia or they will
start crawling up the shores of California,
he said. TTiey never consider any third alternative.
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