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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, October 17, 1979
Speaker deffemds nudleair energy
By Bill Graf
To maintain a healthy rate of national growth, energy
consumption will have to grow at least SO percent as fast
as the gross nation product, said John O'Leary, former
deputy secretary of the Department of Energy.
As part of the David Lectures, O'Leary spoke at the
Nebraska Union Tuesday morning.
O'Leary said because of the rejection of nuclear energy
and the growing rejection of coal production, the country
will have trouble meeting the needs of the future.
Having once served as director of licensing for the
Atomic Energy Commission, O'Leary said he sees
"nuclear energy biting the dust" because people fear the
large utilities, and high technology they don't understand.
He added, "I can't think of a rational reason why
nuclear energy is being abandoned. Coal is one or two
degrees more hazardous than nuclear. We have killed
between 6,000 and 60,000 people in the process of coal
burning, whereas two or three people have died in the
mining of uranium."
In response to those who believe that society is unde
sirably complex and that we should return to "a more
simple order of mankind," he cited civilizations that
existed before the days of large consumption of borrowed
energy. The income level per capita then was equivalent
to about $200 annually, he said.
"A return to the simple life would bring about grind
ing poverty."
O'Leary said he left the Energy Department because,
"for two years I felt like I was butting my hand
against a wall."
To questions about whether or not the oil companies
are artificially creating shortages in order to raise prices,
he stated that while he was with the Department of
Energy they uncovered evidence of over-charges totalling
$5 million in the last five months. He expected evidence
would show the over-charges to total more than $10 mil
lion within four or five months.
However, he added, "The oil companies are no better
or no worse than the rest of us. They're being watched
under a microscope, so there isn't much they can get
away with."
About the economic woes of the U.S., O'Leary said
the pice of oil has risen from the early 1973 price of
$2 a barrel to the current price of $25 a barrel with an
estimate for 1985 of $40 a barrel. The best economic
management in the U.S. could not bring the overall in
flation rate to less than 7 percent annually, he said.
O'Leary, who has spent the last 27 years involved in
energy production, said, "I don't like what I've learned.
The bottom line is, that (because of the nations energy
problems) the real GNP will cease to expand or will
decrease."
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Vol. 1 No. 2
THE NEWS THAT'S GOOD TO EAT.
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Actually, every night is student
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