explaining that, but this actually happened. And we are just now getting 

 to the point where we are going to have to start paying the fare. 

 Questionary pressures on housing for elderly and low income people is 

 another problem that you have in an impacted area. Limited incomes puts 

 a great strain on these people, of which there are many in Rosebud 

 County. Reference has been made to our environmental laws. I just had 

 a note down here about the Montana Reclamation Act, the Major Facility 

 Siting Act and the Coal Tax. I'm not prepared to defend all aspects or 

 the philosophy behind these things. I think that if there is an 

 opportunity for compromise or cooperation between industry and 

 agricluture in Montana, it's going to be as a direct result of the 

 implementation of these pieces of legislation. We are very aware of the 

 economic and political forces we are dealing with, and I think if we didn't 

 have these tools to hang our hat on, we'd be far down the road to losing 

 the things many of us have talked about here today. 



When I completed putting my notes down this morning--l'm a 

 last-minute-guy so I left it until this morning--l thought I might throw out 

 the thought that has concerned me a great deal recently. Mr. White 

 touched on this area a little bit and I guess this would be a degree of 

 exception to possibly the statement that he made. We've been on a binge 

 of rapid utilization of resources for some 100 years in this country. Some 

 of them are in limited supplies, some of them are in unlimited supply, but 

 the question in my mind is, is our life style above and beyond what these 

 resources can support for a long, long period of time? Hadn't we maybe 

 begin as resource managers--people concerned about the resources of 

 America, the life styles--to question ourselves as to whether we need to be 

 living the luxurious type of a life that we are faced with? Can we afford 

 it, I guess is basically what I am asking? 



In closing, I read a statement one time that I thought was probably 

 pretty applicable to my purpose here this morning. I don't even remember 

 where I picked this up so if the author is in the room please excuse me 

 for stealing your lines but anyway, basically what it said was that all 

 great nations of the past have a lot in common. As they grow and develop 

 and become more sophisticated, they become more industrialized. And they 

 also have one more thing in common: they no longer exist. Thank you. 



DON BIANCHI : Our next speaker will take a look at how the West has 

 held up to energy pressures thus far and try to give us some insight to 

 the future energy picture. Dorothy Bradley is a former Montana State 

 Legislator and is currently the Director for Information of the National 

 Center for Appropriate Technology here in Butte. Dorothy. 



