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Word: barrelfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, serious questions remain as to how to dispose of the ton of waste rock that is a by-product of every barrel of synthetic fuel produced. And such projects would also consume enormous quantities of water, a resource as scarce to the West as oil is to New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Synfuels: No Panacea | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

Fortunately, the only obstacle that means anything to oil companies--cost--may be decisive in the future of synthetic fuels. Cost estimates for liquefied coal have climbed from $7.50 per barrel of oil equivalent in 1973 to $20 in 1977, and they are still rising. Nevertheless, oil companies have pushed synthetic fuels as the solution to America's problem of dependence on OPEC. And President Carter's proposal for an $88 billion investment in synfuels shows that he swallowed the oil company line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Synfuels: No Panacea | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

...fatuous call for revolution. Intellectually at any rate, they soon had their adversaries on the run; many of the most voluble leftists of the period have faded from the polemical scene: Noam Chomsky, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Staughton Lynd, Jerry Rubin, Andrew Kopkind ("Morality, like politics, starts at the barrel of a gun"). The Commentary crowd, meanwhile, carries on the battle with undiminished gusto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Radical Retreat | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...country's worst problem. Another 20 per cent say energy is the biggest problem. For so many people to sunder the two issues--and for the Times to go along--is appalling, as though you could separate the political problems of oil and gasoline from their price per barrel and gallon...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Riding the Volckerwagen | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

THEY CAME FROM a far off and heathen wasteland to the north of fair Cambridge. A rabble-rousing band of fierce knights, they were known throughout the kingdom for their green complexions and hairy palms. Their maidens were robust and buxom and could quaff a barrel of ale with scarcely a burp. These were the Green Meanies of Hanover...

Author: By Faithful Scribe, | Title: Green Meanies | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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