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'. 3-waw wash~ x x x seen SUMMARY 0Ji( PROJECT INDEPENDENCE REPORT washington (WRW)--The 1973 Arab embargo threw 500,000 Americans out of work at its peak, but no action has been taken by the government to lessen the effect of another embargo if anotber one occurs. These facts are detailed in the Federal Energy Administration re- port on Project Independence released during the past week. Some actions that the united States could take now would effective- ly augment energy supplies in the next decade, but the development of synthetic fuels, shale oil, geothermal and solar energy cannot meet Am- erican energy needs between now and 1985, the report said. Large new in the next decade increments of energy could become available/through conservation, step- ping up leasing of federal lands, lower anti-pollution air quality reg- ulations to encourage use of coal instead of oil and gas particularly for the production of electricity, and stvrage of petroleum products,it said. After 1985 new sources of energy may be important too, it stated. Currently oil provides 46 percent of the nation's energy, natural gas provides 32 percent, coal 17 percent, and nuclear and other 5 per cent. About 35 percent of our domestic petroleum consumption in 1973 was met by imports of oil from abroad. The purpose of Project Indepen- dence is to make us less dependent on foreign supplies. The following summary from the report indicates what might be done to stimulate pro- duction of energy from the multiple sources available domestically: CRUDE OIL: United States domestic demand for petroleum is approa~ 10g 17 million barrels of oil a day. Production in the United States this year is expected to be 10.5 million barrels a day, down from peak production of 11.3 million barrels a day in 1970. This could be doub- led to 20 million barrels a day at $11 per barrel price by 1985 if all- out production were allowed. Major increases could come from Alaskan developments, stepped-up leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf especi- ally off the California and Alaskan Coasts on the West and the Atlantic Coast on the East, from use of new secondary and tertiary recovery meth- ods to recover reore oil from declining on-shore oil fields, from open- ing to production the Naval Petroleum Reserves at Elk Hills in Califor- nia and nPet 4. in Alaska. This type of production domestically could make us independent of foreign sources of supply, but it could not be maintained for long, regardless of price. As a practical matter, do- mestic production is not likely to increase more than 5 million barrels a day, so the United states will still be dependent on foreign oil to meet part of its needs. U.S. demand for oil increased at the rate of~ 0177