GRIM PREDICTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100080059-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: March 20, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/23: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100080059-9
ARTICLE APPEARED
ON PAGE D -12
TILE WASHINGTON POST
20 March 1978
Jack Anderson
Grim Prediction-The Central Intel-
ligence Agency has compiled some
grim,. secret projections on future oil
use in the United States.
The CIA estimates that Americans',
will be burning "as much as 38 million I
,barrels per day" by the mid-1980s. This
is more than double the daily consump-
tion of 18.4 million barrels in 1977. 1
Of this voracious oil intake, a disturb
ing 8.7 million barrels are drawn from !
overseas oilfields. This heavy depend-!
ence on overseas oil has made the
United States dangerously vulnerable. '
For oil is the nation's lifeblood.
Secret White House papers cite these
troublesome figures as evidence of
"the necessity to reduce our depend-
ence on oil." President Carter was
skeptical about the CIA estimates. He
had seen some evidence, he commen-
ted, "to. contradict the CIA figures."!,
But he agreed that Americans must
learn to break the oil habit.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/23: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100080059-9