427 



that this is a criterion on which this program will ultimately be ac- 

 cepted with the help of our fine friends of the news media if they tell 

 the story becanse this potential is there. 



I will ask unanimous consent that there 'appear in the record at the 

 request of counsel the table which he referred to. 



(The table follows:) 



TABLE 4-2.— DOMESTIC OFFSHORE EXPENDITURES 

 |ln billions of dollars] 



1968 (estimate) 



Cumulative 

 (through 1968) 



Lease bonus and rental payments 



Royalty payments 



Seismic gravity and magnetic surveys 



Drilling and completing wells 



Platforms, production facilities, and pipelines 

 Operating costs. _ 



Total _... 



2.35 



12.75 



Source: Richard J. Howe (Esso Production Research Co.), "Petroleum Operation in the Sea— 1980 and Beyond," 

 Ocean Industry, August 1968, p. 29. 



Mr. Clark. Might I just please come back to the Representative 

 from New York's very salient question about how do you sell the pro- 

 gram to the public. This, I think, is vital. 



First of all, w^e have said money coming from the Government is 

 having a catalytic effect. This is a concept that maybe we don't sell 

 it in those w^ords but it has, I think, a generating effect on industry. 



Just as you said, sir, the space program is all out go and this is 

 going to bring a lot of income and benefit to industry and to the people 

 and I think, sir, that the marine recreational field, the work along 

 the coast, the conservation, the improvement of our beaches and our 

 coastal resources which have become so depressed and depredated in 

 many areas, that this is something that one can go out and certainly 

 I would think get votes on if you can improve a beach and imx^rove 

 facilities so that the people can enjoy the recreation of a weekend that 

 they perhaps could not have before. 



Mr. BiAGGi. I do not quarrel w^ith that, Mr. Clark, but the real thrust 

 of my question was directed at the problem of selling it. 



Mr. Clark. I would, if I may, sir, just clarify the FPC discussion 

 that we have had. 



I am not against FPC. I am for the most economical source of pro- 

 tein. And I am in favor of having an experimental program in this 

 area, and I am very much aw\are of the malnutrition not only in our 

 own country but in the world. 



Mr. Pelly. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that the space 

 program has been represented as having a lot of sex appeal as far as 

 selling it to the public is concerned despite the fact that the New York 

 Times has been trying to get Congress to reduce it all the time, whereas 

 on the other hand we have a little trouble with funding marine rec- 

 reation and some of the other programs which are more basic to peo- 

 ple's needs, and I am sure the Times has been for them 100 percent, 

 increasingly so. 



It indicates that the public is not necessarily influenced by the New 

 York Times. 



