POLICY CRITERIA FOR PETROLEUM 



Minor S. Jameson, Jr. 



Dean Mason has referred several times to special interests and quite a 

 few times to oil. I represent both, as part of what is referred to in 

 some circles as "the oil lobby." This kind of activity is an important 

 element in our form of government, under which the different groups 

 have an obligation to present their viewpoints and the relevant facts 

 so that informed public decisions can be made. 



Dean Mason points out that land and water — and possibly energy 

 supplies — are the country's resource base, any substantial diminution 

 of which would involve a reduction in the potential, not of particular 

 outputs, but of output over-all. I would include energy without the 

 qualification of "possibly." The importance of petroleum (oil and nat- 

 ural gas) as a part of that resource base is shown by the fact that oil 

 and natural gas now furnish more than twice the total amount of 

 energy supplied by other mineral fuels and water. In the area of public 



MINOR S. JAMESON, JR., Executive Vice President of the Inde- 

 pendent Petroleum Association, has been connected with that association for 

 the past twenty years. He is a member of the Military Petroleum Advisory 

 Board. At the time of the Korean War, and again during the Suez crisis, he 

 acted as consultant on petroleum to the Department of the Interior; and in 

 connection with the Cabinet Committee on Energy Supplies and Resource 

 Policy he has been consultant to the Office of Defense Mobilization. Mr. Jame- 

 son was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1911. He received his degree in 

 business and engineering administration from the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology in 1934. 



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