KTLA News: "Mayor Tom Bradley attends meeting about oil supply" (1974)

[Mayor Tom Bradley] We are convinced that we got a problem because we can't get the oil. Now it doesn't make any difference, you know, if somebody has manufactured this or fabricated it. The fact is, we don't have it but I think that, with the benefit of the public, we need to have that kind of satisfactory information and any way that you gentlemen can put some pressure on, wherever it may come whether it's through congressional  action or through administrative action, we need this kind of information to satisfy  our needs and the concerns of the public. [Silence]. [Unidentified Man] I just would ask how we might help uh...in uh... and work with you and your office in convincing people that, you know, this...this is the solution and that the  problem is real. That you can't just explain it away and say, "Some rascal in Washington or in the  oil industry has caused all this." Whatever caused it, and we hope to find that out, it is here and  voluntary restraint is the easiest answer, the most economical answer. [Bradley] Jim, I think, you raised a  very good point. A valid point. And one of the things that I will talk about when I go to Washington on Friday is the matter of how can we get uhm.. good, credible information from the oil companies? I know that these gentlemen in the Congress   haven't been able to get it yet. Uh...perhaps Mr. Simon and his staff can go into the field and can make some spot checks for us, determine whether or not those tanks are full, whether or not there is as much oil coming into this country this year as there was last year, uh...whether, in fact, there really is a shortage of oil available to the major oil companies. I think it would be for the benefit of the companies as well as this country to have that information out and if that is available, I think, that some of the questions, some of the suspicion and doubt that now exists would be relieved. [Room noise]. [Bradley] One area is the transportation bills that uh... have been pushed for quite some time now the funding for operating expenses as well as  capital construction is...is urgent. We thank you for your help in getting through the first step in opening up the Highway Trust Fund to make it available...some money available for transportation. Uh...the single urban transportation fund that the administration has proposed is in line with what the cities of this... ....do what it wants in...in the rationing field. If you give them that kind of carte blanche authority I would hope that in the hearings you would at least elicit from them some information as to what they plan to do with regard to the allocation formula. Thirty-five gallons per month across the board  is simply an unacceptable answer for those of us who live in this Southern California area. So I would hope that you could get some commitment from them that in the standby authority or any permanent rationing plan they put into effect that areas like Southern  California would have some special consideration in terms of an increased amount of gas which they would be able to get. And I think that some of the other facets of that bill that we just discussed earlier this morning, the inequities that are so clear, really have to be resolved and I think  that kind of commitment from the administration is necessary before that authority is given. Now, that just gives you some... [Unidentified Man]...infinitesimal at this time. It's less than three tenths of a percent is the contribution of nuclear uh...plants. The nuclear plant will give us domestic indigenous control  of a source of supply which we have...the same as we have in coal and the oil and the gas that we have. We will not have to import it. Now this red line up here shows imports are shortages. This is the lowest demand curve and it's about 84 million...