Bradley Calls for City Meeting on Oil Supply

Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, citing the crisis in the Persian Gulf, called Wednesday for a meeting of top city executives to discuss the possibility of an oil shortage. Bradley also asked city employees to voluntarily begin sharing rides or using mass transit to commute to and from work to save fuel.

Preparing for the possibility of an oil shortage in the wake of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and the resulting tumult on the international oil market that sent gas prices skyrocketing, Bradley called for a meeting of the city’s Fuel Allocation Committee. No date was set for the meeting, but Bradley said it would convene in the next two weeks.

The fuel committee, formed in 1973 and comprised of the city government’s top nine executives, has the power to determine fuel allocations among city departments “to ensure that no vital city services will be interrupted.”