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                      ENERGY MEASURES TO REDUCE
                  U. S.  DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL


                            PRESENTED BY
               F. KEVIN BOLAND, ASSOCIATE  DIRECTOR
                   ENERGY AND MINERALS  DIVISION
             UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING  OFFICE
                      WASHINGTON,  D. C.  20548
                             AT THE
            CONFERENCE ON THE UNITED STATES AND  OPEC
                       SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
                           APRIL 8,  1979

     I appreciate your invitation to participate  in the Conference

on The United States and OPEC.   I hope my discussion will build-on

what you have already heard by underscoring the  importaniffefacfi-To

in three areas where the General Accounting Office  (GAO) has done

previous work and which will be of continued  interest to the Congress.

     --The Government needs to get its conservation act together.

       There is ample reason to believe that the world  is going to

       continue to experience periods of tight supply and upward

       pressure on prices.  The time is here to bite the bullet on

       conservation.

     --We should encourage more exploration and development from

       non-OPEC areas, and formulate specific strategies and initia-

       tives the United States should take in dealing with inter-

       national energy issues.

     --National energy policy should be more focused to achieve an

       orderly transition to an economy based upon alternative sources

       of energy.  We urgently need to move more rapidly to a renewable

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