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...accelerate production by employing a technique known as water injection, whereby water is forced into wells to make the crude petroleum easier to pump. Result: more oil in the short run, but less in the long term. Some older wells in the Volga-Ural region now pump five barrels of water for every barrel of oil; and the average Soviet well pumps 50% water...
...While Carter claimed that the fee would save 100,000 bbl. a day, estimates within the DOE ranged as low as 20,000. And even if the saving really was 100,000, a $10 billion tax would mean that the U.S. Government was charging American consumers $270 for every barrel saved...
...Judelson, G & W's president, is positively electrified by the potential. Says he: "We have an alternative here that's viable. We don't have to keep burning our resources into the air, and we don't have to keep paying the Arabs $31 a barrel...
...motorcycle. Douglas insisted that he had paid a drinking buddy $100 for the rifles just that morning. After he was released from the county jail that afternoon, he returned home, where he told TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson: "I never even heard of Vernon Jordan before yesterday." The barrel of the .30-06 was dirty, and a local ballistics expert tentatively concluded that the rifle had not been fired recently. Further tests at the FBI laboratory in Washington confirmed that opinion...
...leases round the world to Brother Lamar's Rolex watch and even Hunt family office equipment, cattle feeders and watercoolers, nothing escaped the attentive and appraising eye of the bankers. Explained one banker in the style of his trade: "When you've got someone over a barrel, you grab everything...