Oil Supplies

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 19 Rhagfyr 1973.

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Photo of Sir Alec Douglas-Home Sir Alec Douglas-Home , Kinross and West Perthshire 12:00, 19 Rhagfyr 1973

I believe that if the hon. Gentleman thinks about the matter he will feel that, by and large, the activities of the international oil companies have a good deal to be said for them. How long the present patterns of the international oil companies will last, we do not know. In the short term, the essential thing is to get the maximum supplies into Europe. In the longer term, relationships between producers and consumers can be worked out, and I hope that they will be.