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Ever since the 1973 oil embargo, once plain-looking companies that produced coal and other natural resources have been eagerly pursued as merger partners. Oil companies in particular have been looking them over as a means of getting in on the development of alternative sources of energy...
...Rand Corp. has produced statistics showing that people of all ages-no longer just young hippies-are moving from cities and suburbs to rural areas of the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Vermont, upper Michigan, the Sierra foothills and the long-depressed Appalachian regions that are benefiting from the coal boom...
...know that there are women coal miners? Novice Miner Susan Miller, 25, says cold cash prompted her descent from a sewing-machine factory into the depths of Freeman United Coal Mining Co.'s Orient 6 mine at Waltonville, Ill. For her $42.75 daily trainee's pay, double her former earnings, Miner Miller works the coal belt, builds support partitions and sprays rock dust to prevent fires from coal fumes. Co-worker Mary Siefert, 38, a divorced mother of three who was the first woman on the job last August, says she was not trying to prove anything...
...contributing factor is that nukes are more complicated to build than other types of power plants; they take about ten years to complete, while coal-burning plants can be built in seven years. The extra time is money - lots of it - because the costs of building and borrowing are skyrocketing. Thus, the cost of a nuclear power plant planned for Midland, Mich., in 1968 was estimated to be $260 million; the plant, not yet finished, is now expected to cost $1.4 billion. In total, says Power Plant Builder Leonard Reichle of Ebasco Services, Inc., a nuke costs...
...imposed on imported oil, which now fetches about $15 per bbl. in the U.S. Other provisions of the bill would require both automakers and appliance manufacturers to improve the energy efficiency of their products, guarantee loans totaling up to $750 million to mine operators wanting to expand coal production, underwrite state efforts to develop fuel-saving programs and provide for the creation of an oil reserve of 500 million to 1 billion bbl. of oil as a hedge against another Arab oil embargo...