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RESOURCES CONSERVATION COMMISSION
MARCH 16, 1979 4:30 P.M.
CIVIC CENTER CONFERENCE ROOM
MEMBERS PRESENT: Bolknick, Denniger, Hotka, Stager.
STAFF PRESENT: Tinklenberg, Lee
SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION AND FORMAL ACTIONS TAKEN
Stager moved, Bolnick seconded, to approve the minutes of Feb-
ruary 27, 1979, meeting as read. Approved unanimously.
Gasoline Shortage Problem Reported By Staff
Roger Tinklenberg found out that there is no exact information
of gasoline consumption at the City or County level. The
Department of Revenue, Fuel Tax Division, lists only three
independent oil jobbers for Johnson County and the major oil
companies reported their sales for the entire state only.
Other problems are:
-Co-ops do not pay fuel tax, therefore no record, of their
sales, is kept.
-The number of out of town vehicles not recorded, which are in
the area for the University and the hospitals.
-I-80 traffic stopping to refuel.
A Brookhaven National Laboratory study of energy use by states
and counties, as reported in the 1977 Energy Report of the Iowa
Energy Policy Council, indicated that Johnson County's energy
use was between 2.62 and 2.69 percent of the energy use state-
wide in 1972. The state-wide gasoline use, in 1977, was
1,628,320,000 gallons, meaning that Johnson County's gasoline
use was approximately 43,000,000 gallons. During 1977 the
fuel use per vehicle was about 821 gallons per year state-wide
while the fuel use for Johnson County vehicles was about 1,030
gallons, or almost 3 gallons per day, per
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The DOE rationing plan regulations discussed 2 gallons per day
as the possible per vehicle allocation, meaning that
consumption would have to be cut by one-third.
The Commission's projection is that the gasoline shortage will
be a 10 to 30 percent short fall.
There would be a ten month lag after the beginning of a gas
shortage before the governmental rationing of gas.
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CEDAR RAPIDS -DES MOINES
RESOURCES COi,oERVATION COMMISSION
March 16, 1979
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Denniger suggested that the impact of this shortage on City
services should be looked at carefully.
During the ten month lag city and emergency vehicles should
have priority in acquiring gas before private vehicles.
Programs like car pools and mass transit operation should be
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reinforced.
To establish priorities, the staff should contact department
heads to draw up a list of vehicle uses which could be cut as
the gasoline shortage worsens. The Resources Conservation
Commission will put the list together in case the shortage
occurs.
DOE allocation plans should be checked to give a clearer image
of the allocation procedures.
As far as the populace is concerned a chart is needed to give
people some ideas of distance and time spent on using different
! types of transportation, i.e. walking, cycling, driving, or
riding the bus.
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Staff will also go through the articles in the Wall Street
Journal in order to have a better understanding of the problem.
Other items on the agenda were deferred until the next meeting.
The meeting adjourned at 5:45 P.M.
Respectfully submitted, Roger Tinklenberg, Katie Lee.
Ira Bolnick, Secretary.
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