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1932 › Herbert Hoover (Republican) › Conservation of natural resources
Conserve natural resources, including antitrust revision to end waste in oil, coal and timber
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Solution
Continue recommending legislation to correct 'the waste and destruction' of natural resources caused by present antitrust interpretations that prevent cooperative production control in resource industries.
Rationale
Ruinous competition in extractive industries wastes irreplaceable resources.
Statements (2)
The conservation of oil is a major problem to the industry and the nation. The administration has sought to bring coordination of effort through the States, the producers and the Federal Government. Progress has been made and the effort will continue.
I have for years supported the conservation of national resources. I have made frequent recommendations to the Congress in respect thereto, including legislation to correct the waste and destruction of these resources through the present interpretations of the antitrust laws. I shall continue to urge such action.
Follow-through
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Hoover lost the election; the pledge could not be tested in office. The NIRA's suspension of the antitrust laws and its oil and coal codes gave the resource industries the cooperative production control Hoover had asked for, by a different route.
Enacted by others
| 1933-06-16 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | statute NIRA codes (petroleum, bituminous coal) | source |
Other positions on this issue
- Real soil conservation and a national land-use and flood-prevention program run with the States and 'out of politics' — Alf Landon, 1936 directional_stance
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