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Giant Fireball. A key problem is that the wildly expensive technology needed to ship gas over water requires long start-up times and makes the fuel extremely costly to import. For example, Algeria, which has taken the lead in trying to boost exports to the U.S., is spending billions of dollars to build six liquefaction plants, but they are not expected to be fully operational for a decade. These facilities freeze the fuel into liquid natural gas (LNG), which is then loaded on specially constructed tankers that cost up to $150 million each...
...Arab oil embargo, will sell in the U.S. for about $1.25 per 1,000 cu. ft., v. a top federally controlled price of $1.44 for domestic gas shipped across state lines and $2 or more for uncontrolled intrastate gas. Algerian gas bought under a postembargo agreement, however, will cost Americans $3.30 per 1,000 cu. ft. The Algerians are expected to lift the price even higher in future contracts...
...however, the cost and difficulties of shipping LNG long distances will, for the foreseeable future at least, keep gas imports from becoming the major energy prop that oil imports now are. At a time when the Government is striving to lessen dependence on foreign energy, that could be at least an ironically mixed blessing...
...cross section of "housewife blues" in the age of liberation. She answers all these pleas, which provided the basis for her second book. Furthermore, she has some 75 Morgan-trained disciples now giving Total Woman courses to thousands of women in 60 cities. Four two-hour sessions cost $15, of which Marabel gets $5-helping to bring her take so far to nearly $1.5 million...
...courts have long upheld the rights of editors to decide for themselves. This privilege is not as cost-free as some editors argue: foreign political leaders often deplore and consider harmful the sievelike nature of the American Government and the blabbiness of the American press. The gain is in a public informed, in time to redress wrongs. Advantage and disadvantage are not always in neat balance. Where in other societies only authority prevails, here what is not authority's domain is left to conscience. The heartening fact, to judge by the record, is that the graver the issue, the more...