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Title: Energy Supply In The 1970s
Author: Elmer F. Bennett
Source: American Gas Association 1971
Year Published: 1971
Abstract: THE Office of Emergency Preparedness, among its many assignments, is responsible for contingency planning and coordination of Federal agency efforts to cope with natural disasters. In recent years our agency has been instrumental in a program called Operation Foresight in which reliable forecasts are made in advance of probable flood damage areas each year. With these forecasts in hand, advance preparations then are made to meet these emergencies as they develop. The evidence before us today clearly indicates that we need better-coordinated and better-planned efforts fo analyze and evaluate our rapidly changing energy picture. While we certainly should not characterize our present posture as one of crisis or disaster, it seems apparent that in this area, too. we can well afford an Operation Foresight. All about us we see change developing and then occurring, and the fuel and energy industries are caught up in the tide of these times. A Roman philosopher once said, Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. While I suppose we all agree that the river of passing events is causing some shock waves in the fuel industries, even greater shifts have occurred in the past, and a brief historical view might be useful.

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