Oregon daily emerald., February 05, 1973, Page 4, Image 4

Energy panelists hit ‘wasteful over-use’
By KATHLEEN GLANVILLE
Of the Emerald
America’s wasteful over-use of
power was stressed as a major
cause of the energy crisis at a
discussion sponsored by the Lane
County League of Women Voters
Wednesday morning
The seven representatives of
various public utilities and en
vironmental groups who met to
discuss the many aspects of
energy' policy agreed that any
long range planning would have
to find ways erf limiting energy
use.
“Ultimately society will find
that we as individuals will have to
get permits from the state to use
electric power,” said Kelley
Woods, coordinator of the
Nuclear and ’Riennal Energy
Council. Kelley emphasized that
no matter how we increase power
we will eventually deplete all our
resources.
“We can’t strive our power
problems through technology
alone.” said William Holser,
head of the University’s
Department of Geology. Holser
demonstrated the consumer’s
control of energy waste by
waving a light switch, saying that
the solution te the power crisis
was invented at the same time
the electric light bulb was
created.
“Our problem goes deeper than
technology If only psychologists
could make the over-use of
electricity psychologically un
palatable,” said Holser.
Harry Garretson, of the
Bonneville Power Ad
ministration, also brought up the
individual's role in the energy
crisis. He said that electric
energy was one of the few
commodities over which the
public has instantaneous control.
Residential customers use one
third of the electrical power
according to Garretson. and the
two-thirds consumed by com
mercial-industrial interests are
under the indirect control of the
public
Eugene Water and Electric
Board General Manager Byron
Price reminded the audience that
EWEB is not a utilities com
mission. “The board is elected,
therefore you, the people of
Eugene have control of the
system,” he stated.
Ron Bessey, Water Resources
Consultant and past coordinator
of the Department of the Interior
for the Pacific Northwest said
that planners often focus solely
on local needs, therefore, their
planning tends to be short
ranged.
“Ideally an energy policy
would encompass the whole
world. Obviously the balance of
energy is not within political
boundaries,” said David Piper,
Assistant Public Utilities
Commissioner for Energy
(PUC). “The next best thing is an
energy policy for the entire U.S.”
(The administration has
scheduled a National Power
Policy statement for March 11).
As of now. Piper said, Oregon
does not have an energy policy.
However, he continued, any
energy policy must be at least
regional to be effective because
all forms of energy are in
terrelated.
"Conserv ing energy in Oregon
will do little good if California
increases consumption.” Piper
pointed out that depletion of
resources must be curtailed
universally, not just in selected
areas.
Price emphasized the im
portance of all utilities par
ticipating as one regional entity.
Future alternatives to a
depleted power supply may be
solar, wind, and goethermal
energy, according to Hosier.
However, Wilbur McNulty, of
the Committee for the Con
servation of Energy, commented
that such an unlimited, safe
energy source would probably be
the ultimate polluter. Such a
source of energy would allow
man to continue to alter the
earth’s ecology with hindrance,
he asserted.
“The calories (of energy)
generated now, translate into 100
slaves working for each of us,”
said McNulty. At this rate, he
added, there will be no resources
left in 100 years.
McNulty said that a complete
moratorium on power growth
would be politically unrealistic
and an acceptance of the current
rate of growth disastrous. He
suggested that an in-between
stance be adopted. Such a policy
would admit for the sake of the
world that we use too much
energy now, he said, and that it is
imperative to wind down that
use.
For references, information
Women’s Center expanding
By REE WEIL
Of the Emerald
The Women’s Study and Research Center is
quietly expanding to provide a complete reference
for people needing information regarding topics
involving the women’s movement.
Located in 605 PLC, the center is funded by the
University’s Office of Scholarly and Scientific
Research.
In the small-scale specialized library, files of
articles from periodicals, books and magazines all
deal with subjects related to the status of women
“We are encouraging research and holding
regular seminars open to those interested,” said
Judy Grether, a staff member at the center. In
cluded on the mailing list are faculty members,
students and members of the community.
Anyone can be placed on the mailing list at their
request.
Through the seminars, “we hope to increase the
professors’ awareness of various things that would
influence their teaching,” Grether said.
Seminars, held twice a month, are informal and
offer no credit, giving a forum to a student or
faculty member who wishes to discuss his or her
research.
The center began with a group of people in
terested in doing research. "They wanted to support
each other intellectually and emotionally,” she
said, so a group of graduate students and faculty got
together to discuss possibilities.
The center is interested in all aspects of the
family scene, including the division of labor in a
family, Grether said.
The center library includes articles on “the
impact of legislation on women, the changing
feminist consciousness and the different effects this
is having,” Grether said.
A related group called the Women’s Studies
Steering Committee concentrates on establishing
more courses focused on women.
Initiated by Joan Acker, assistant professor of
sociology at the University, the committee also
hopes to see more women on the faculty and in
higher administrative positions.
The staff at the Women's Study and Research
Center is looking for qualified work-study students.
The staff encourages anyone interested in the
cento- to stop by.
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