WATCHING GOVERNMENT WRITING A SONGBOOK

With Patrick Crow from Washington, D.C. Thirty-four oil state congressmen met with U.S. petroleum industry representatives last week in an unusual effort to seek ways to stem the decline in domestic oil production. At a second meeting this week, representatives of independent and major companies will offer the congressmen a short list of desired legislative and regulatory changes. The congressmen will merge those with their own ideas, assembling three or four proposals that everyone would fully