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...companies." The companies, which have suffered a series of blows in recent years, including nationalization of many of the foreign oilfields they developed, have pulled out all stops in a multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign to defeat the bill. In the view of American Petroleum Institute Vice President Charles DiBona, "There couldn't be a worse time to even be considering this economic tomfoolery...
...reports that shortages of heavy residual oil for public utilities and factories will begin pinching by early December. By January, Morton adds, home heating oil and diesel and jet fuel will be scarce, and a substantial drying up of gasoline stocks can be expected by mid-February. Charles J. DiBona, the Deputy Director of Energy Policy, warns that the heavily industrialized Northeast, which uses a great deal more Arab oil than the rest of the country, could wind up trying to make do with only half of its normal supply of home heating oil and struggling through electric brownouts...
...head of the Government's Oil Policy Committee. When spot shortages of gasoline began to appear in the late spring, he decided that some allocation of petroleum products was necessary and prepared a voluntary system to accomplish it. The morning he was scheduled to present it to Congress, DiBona appealed to Simon's boss, Treasury Secretary George Shultz, to block the testimony. Shultz refused to interfere and the program was adopted...
ROUND 5. Colorado Governor John Love, whose opposition to mandatory controls was already on record, was appointed to head the EPO. After DiBona, now his assistant, met with him in Denver, Love grew stronger in his opposition; he reiterated it at a press conference in San Clemente. When Love arrived in Washington, however, Simon got him to change his mind. On July 10, Simon told a House committee that a decision for mandatory allocation would be made "within a week...
...ROUND 6. DiBona did not give up. He gathered support from White House aides who felt that such a politically sensitive decision should be left to Congress. The Administration decided to stop pushing the program...