The Nation - News from March 18, 1985

The United States must develop alternative domestic sources of natural gas in order to ensure an adequate supply of the fuel in the year 2000, the congressional Office of Technology Assessment said. And while the nonpartisan agency did not specifically call for the lifting of federal price controls on all natural gas, it warned that unfettered prices may be necessary to spur the technology needed to tap new gas sources. The OTA said that “by the year 2000 most of the gas produced by the United States will have to come from reserves not in our current inventory.”