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AMERICA MUST OVERCOME ITS ENERGY PARALYSIS


	At the time of the oil crisis in 1973, America imported
xx% of its oil requirements; after two years of Project Independence
we import  yy%.
In 1973, America produced  xx barrels of oil and yy cubic feet of
natural gas; in 1975 we produced xx barrels of oil and yy cubic
feet of natural gas.

In 1973, it was expected that we would meet xx% of our electricity
requirements with nuclear energy by 1985.  Now this goal has been
scaled down to yy%.

Why this pattern of challenge and non-response?


...Proposition 15 purports to regulate nuclear energy, but its
sponsors are really trying to ban it.  This is shown by their previous
support of the moratorium voted down in 1972, by the extremist
nature of their current arguments, and by the vagueness of the
requirements that nuclear plants would have to meet in order
to continue operation.

...Nuclear energy is much better regulated nationally.  Nuclear
manufacturers and utilitieshave to spend hundreds of millions
of dollars to satisfy the Nuclear Regulatory Comission. 
Two sets of regulations can't work - and aren't really
intended to work.

Nuclear energy is needed.