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...organization opposes AP&L's proposed 2800-megawatt coal-burning plant because it fears the facility will emit large amounts of sulfur dioxide, causing damage to crops, buildings, equipment, water supplies and health of nearby farmers...
Albert at 65 has no desire for higher office. Born in an unpainted shack in McAlester, Okla., he was raised in nearby Bug Tussle (later renamed Flowery Mound), after his father abandoned coal mining to become a tenant farmer. As a student in a one-room schoolhouse, Albert developed a love of reading (chiefly history and biography). He used his $1,500 winnings as a champion high school orator to continue his education at the University of Oklahoma, where he graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key and a Rhodes scholarship...
...bill calls for many feasible conservation measures. Domestic wells would be required to pump oil faster than their "maximum efficient rates," a move that would risk damaging the oilfields by reducing the underground pressure. Electric utilities that could do so would have to convert from burning oil to coal-at the cost of more pollution. Highway speed limits would be lowered to 50 m.p.h.; motorists would be required to get regular engine tune-ups and would be encouraged to form car pools...
...indoor plumbing, but electric lights. Jenefer,* 29, a former schoolteacher, is not so lucky. For her hillside treehouse she pumps water from the city main, via a redwood tank on a nearby hill, to a spigot and washbasin on the front porch. For heat she relies on a coal stove once used on a sailing ship. But no matter. Jenefer is a sylvan spirit who lives on simple fare such as grapes, sardines and raw string beans. In fact, her isolation is so great that she worked in the nude while building her two-room redwood shack. Her only complaint...
...also greatly accelerate research into ways of efficiently developing non-Arab sources of fuel. The Rocky Mountain shale and Athabascan tar sands of Canada may hold more oil than all the sands of the Arab deserts; some estimates run as high as 1.5 trillion bbl. Liquefication and gasification of coal could provide a low-polluting way of using that superabundant fuel. But the capital investment required is staggering: $5 billion to $7 billion to get 1,000,000 bbl. of oil a day out of shale or tar sands. Senator Jackson has been advocating a U.S. emergency research effort similar...