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...Both Gerrit A. Wagner, president of Royal Dutch Petroleum, and Sir Eric Drake, chairman of British Petroleum, denied that there is an energy "crisis." What there is, said Drake, is a man-made shortage of energy in certain places. In the U.S., he contended, government regulation of natural gas prices has discouraged investment in new sources of supply, and environmentalists have virtually stopped the building of new electrical generating plants and urgently needed oil refineries. There is no physical world shortage of oil, he said...
...typically worldly, multilingual Dutchman, who spent part of his youth as an anti-Nazi resistance fighter, has just taken over the top job in a globe-spanning industrial empire that employs 165,000 people, owns and charters a fleet of 200 ships and lately has encountered some rough weather. Gerrit ("Gerry") Wagner became chairman of the seven-man committee that runs Royal Dutch/Shell, which is the world's biggest industrial enterprise outside the U.S. as well as the second largest oil complex (after Jersey Standard). The son of a Dutch businessman, Wagner joined Royal Dutch in 1946 and spent...
Such shifts in the balance of power between oil possessors and oil users were very much on the minds of negotiators in Geneva. Both sides were bargaining for advantage, but neither seemed to know precisely where the best position lay. Said Gerrit A. Wagner, a senior managing director of Royal Dutch/Shell, the largest non-U.S. industrial business: "There is great concern in most OPEC countries that they will go too far and kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. They know that there is a point beyond which they should not raise the price. But they...
...Netherlands' Gerrit Wagner reminded the discussion group: "In terms of income per capita, Japan is No. 20 on the world list." He added: "In the trade field, there could be one American solution in Europe and quite another in Japan...
...Société Suisse pour I'Industrie Horlogère, a holding company of watch manufacturers, warned: "We have to assume President Nixon's good faith internationally. But we have also to add that if he does not succeed, this country will almost certainly go protectionist." Gerrit Wagner agreed: "We should take back to Europe a message that though the situation is serious, the U.S. has the best intentions. However, if it is confronted with a choice between a national and an international solution, it will opt for the national...