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Safety Use DEAN WATSON AUTO SALES AROTIC CAT The Boss - The Smooth Ride for the long run authorized dealer sales & service Hwy. 47 - Uxbridge 1-852-6332 LARRY'S SPORTS & MARINE New alternate-firing engine. New tough one-piece crankshaft. New 'controlled-ride' suspension. New low- profile styling. Firepower breakerless CD ignition for fast starts. Neutral lockout for safe starts. 2-to-1 gearing for easy starts. New 3-layer shock absorbing seat. R.R. No. 4 King St. E. Town Line Oshawa ALL SEASON SPORTS Open 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. MOTO-SKI Parts - Service - Accessories 576-8260 -ê I RUPP Doesn't build the most snowmobiles ....... ONLY the best Autborized Dealer Sales & Service TREWIN FARM EQUIPMENT BLACKSTOCK 986-4283 KALNINS . . . Energy Rip-off The Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, has told his people that there is no real shortage of energy in this country at the present time. He also has informed us that no fuel rationing is likely to take place in the near future. In other words - what's all this talk about energy crisis? The Prime Minister might have a good point. I'm still driving my little Volkswagen, I'm still using the natural gas and I'm still using all my electrical appliances. But, I'm aware that sooner or later the good life will come to an end. It must cease, because we are still wasting the energy in untold quantities. The day will come when the little boy will ask his dad: "Tell me daddy, how come, in 1973, they used those big cars which could burn more than 10 gallons of gas a day? How come they built huge transport trucks, knowing that Arabs won't give them any oil?" In twenty years from now, I bet, there will be more questions raised there will be more questions raised about our current energy crisis. But, by then, the factswill be of historical vahie onlyà B1G PAUL'S LTD. SKI-DOO Sales & Service - Parts NOTION RD. PICKERING 942-0472 839-7849 I M At present, we should take a much harder look at the so-called energy crisis. First, we should find out how serious the problem is. If it warrants any action, then let's get on with it. It appears to me that many of us, due to some fuel shortage, are geing taken for a ride by the rich oil companies. We live in time of economic rip-offs. Not long ago food prices shot up. The price hike was immediat- ely attributed to the world-wide shortage of consumer goods. Yet at a recent meeting of the Eufopean Economic Community, one of the first items on the agenda was how to deal with the problem of agricultural surpluses. I suspect that this could be also the case with the highly publicised oil and gas shortage on both sides of the Atlantic. My feeling is that oil companies, with the help of Arab blackmailers, have succeeded in coaxing us into a wide-spread belief that the crisis are real. Once the tone is set, the prices can go up even higher. Unfortunately, the energy problem is compounded by several side factors - most of them of-political nature. While the U.S. govern- ment and the Arab nations are at odds over the oil policies, an oil-rich country like Canada is practically helpless (and hopeless) in dealing with the present energy situation. Worst.of all, we cannot look after our own people. We are dependant on other nations for the. energy handouts. What a shame! Now that we know what the problem is, we should concentrate on solving it. First and foremost, all Canadians should band together in fighting off the energy crisis. We should start our own industries with the help of investors from coast to coast. Canadians have saved billions and billions of dollars. Now is the time to invest this money for a very good cause - our survival in the future. If the Canadian Government would form an all-put company for this purpose, I'd be the first one to invest one hundred ,,dollars. And by multiplying this with 20 million other iivestors, at least it wuobe ytart. It's A & T MOTORS Automatic Transmissions & General Repairs Alouette Snowmobiles Sales & Service TONY PERRONI 209 DUNDAS ST. EAST WHITBY, ONTARIO 668-2893 ON TENDER Mechanical Contractors SEALED TENDERS will be received until Wednesday, December 19th, 1973 2 P.M. LOCAL TIME for replace- ment, installation of steam and condensate Unes in steam tunnel from Cottage No. 5 to Amusement Hall of the Ontario Hospital, Whitby, Ontario for the Ministry of Health. NOTE: To obtain Tender Documents or further infori- ation regarding this Tender, please contact Mrs. E.M. Neale, Ministry of Government Services, 322 Kent Street, West, Lindsay, Ontario. Telephone: 705-324-9188. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. G.F. Mounsteven, Regional Manager, TENDER NO. 31C-139 MINISTRY OF Ontario GOVERNMENT SERVICES a V/HITBY FREE PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1973, PAGE 9 Week Caution The quiet new 74 Polaris Electra is here See it at BELL'S SALES & SERVICE R.R. NO. 2 WHITBY 668-6173 SKI-DOO SALES & SERVICE New & Used Machines See them at DON VALLANCE EQUIPMENT Brooklin - 655-3291