The Energy Non-Crisis - Chapter 1

Regulations that forced the costs of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline up from a projected $2 billion dollars to beyond $12 billion dollars. We’ll tell you more about that.
Senator Hugh Chance, a former Senator of the State of Colorado, visited Lindsey Williams on the pipeline at his invitation, to speak in the work camps for which he was responsible for, as Chaplain, on the northern sector of the Trans-Alaska Oil pipeline.


Lindsey Williams was to arrange a tour of the 'Prudhoe Bay Facility'.

Senator Chance was shown everything he wanted to see, and he was told everything he wanted to know. The Senator was given information by a number of highly-placed responsible executives with Atlantic Richfield, and these were cooperative with him at all times.

After Senator Chance had talked at length with Mr. X, (He is named Mr. X, to protect his anonymity) he returned to Mr. Lindsey Williams dormitory room at Pump Station No. 1 and sat down and said to Lindsey, “Lindsey, I can hardly believe what I have seen and heard today.”

“Lindsey, I was in the Senate of the State of Colorado when the Federal briefer came to inform us as to why there is an energy crisis. Lindsey, what I have heard and seen today, compared with what I was told in the Senate of the State of Colorado, makes me realize that almost everything I was told by those Federal briefer was a downright lie!”

Senator Chance then asked for another interview with Mr.X. The following day, the Senator, Lindsey Williams and Mr. X sat in Mr. X’s office.



Senator Chance’s first question was, “Mr. X, how much crude oil is there under the North Slope of Alaska, in your estimation?”


Mr. X answered, “In my estimation, from the seismographic work and the drilling we have already done, I am convinced that there is as much oil under the North Slope of Alaska as there is in all of Saudi Arabia.”


The next question that Senator Hugh Chance asked, was “Why isn’t this oil being produced, if there is an oil crisis?”


According to Mr. Lindsey Williams, Mr. X told him that Federal government and the State government of Alaska had allowed only one pool of oil on the North Slope of Alaska to be developed.


Senator Chance then asked, “Mr. X, do you think that there are numerous pools of oil under the North Slope of Alaska?”

Mr. X replied, “Senator Chance, the government has allowed us to develop only one 100-square-mile area of this vast North Slope. There are many, many 100-square-mile areas under the North Slope of Alaska which contain oil. There are many pools of oil under the North Slope of Alaska.”

The Senator then asked, “Mr. X, what do you think the Federal government is out to do—what do you really think the government has as its ultimate goal in this business?”

Which Mr. X stated, “I personally believe that the Federal government is out to declare American Telephone and Telegraph a monopoly. In so doing they will be able to divide the company and to break the back of the largest private enterprise on the face of the earth. Secondly, they want to nationalize the oil companies. I believe that these two objectives merge.”

Senator Chance asked one last question, “Mr. X, if what you say is true, then why don’t you as oil companies tell the American people the truth and warn them? ”

“Senator Chance,” Mr. X replied, “we don’t dare tell the American people the truth because there are so many laws already passed and regulations on the books that if the government decided to impose them all on us and enforce them, they could put us into bankruptcy within six months.”

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