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Every day that our nation continues its heavy dependence on OPEC oil. Am ericans lose a little m ore of their freedom.If you live in New York City or Westchester, you are 60 percent dependent on oil for your electricity When OPEC calls the tune, your electric bill jumps.Since 1969. the price of OPEC oil has jum ped 1400 percent%u2014from $2 a barrel to $ 3 0 -w ith no end in sight That s taken a big bite out of your pocketbook. and out of your freedom.What can be done9For starters, we should turn loose America's most potent freedom fighter coalTheres enough U S. coal to generate electricity for hundreds of years. And we have a strategy for using it.First, wed switch three Con Edison generating units from oil to coal And w ed buy power from new coal plants to be built by the State Power AuthorityWith this strategy, our custom ers would save hundreds of millions on their electric bills through the 1980s And our OPEC dependence would shrink from 60 percent to less than 25.Then, in the 90s. liquefied coal could eliminate the rem aining 25 percent and leave New York City and Westchester OPEC-freeYou can help to make it happen Write for a copy of our booklet Support our strategyHelp break O PEC's grip on your p o c ke tb o o k -a n d on America's freedomFor a co p y of C on Edison s strategy fo r re d u cin g dependence on O PEC oil please co m p le te and mail this c o u p o n Warren B. CoburnVice P resident B ro o klyn D ivision C on E dison30 Flatbush A venue R oom 620 B rooklyn. N Y 112171 Ins mi'ssrt(|i' i)hkI li>i by IIie sloi kholdi'is; of Ci>n (bisonDecember 27.1979, The PHOENiX, Page 3