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...then be used as a low-grade variety of crude...
Though research on extracting kerogen from marl began in the 1920s, shale oil went undeveloped because its production cost always exceeded the market price of crude. Promises still outpace production, but during the past few years Occidental Petroleum, Atlantic Richfield and Union Oil have spent millions experimenting with shale-oil extraction in Colorado's Piceance Basin. Occidental Chairman Armand Hammer believes that his company will be able to begin commercial production by 1985, keeping costs below $25 per bbl. Today other companies are digging mines near Grand Junction and Rangely, Colo., and Vernal, Utah. Exxon is the most enthusiastic...
...case as presented in court belied such crude polemics. Defense attorneys argued that their clients, who had been dared to attend the rally by the C.W.P., acted in self-defense after C.W.P. members struck their cars with sticks and brandished guns. David Wayne Matthews, who told the police shortly after the event that he had shot at least three people, testified that he grabbed his shotgun when he saw "niggers" with guns. "One of them looked up and hollered, 'I'm gonna kill you, you son of a bitch, kill the Klan,' and I took...
...energy costs are about to start spurting upward again too. Though oil consumption in the industrial world is down 8% from last year's levels, and inventories are full, the ten-week-old Iran-Iraq war has cut out 9% of the non-Communist world's crude production, resulting in a tightening market that is rapidly forcing up prices. Quotes for the small amounts of crude that are regularly traded on the spot oil market have climbed as much as 30% since the outbreak of hostilities, to $39 and even $41 per bbl. Administration officials now fear this...
...same time, he tried to see how the resulting patterns of waves agreed with the natural electrical vibrations of the brain, because it was Gilbert's theory...that all existing tunes were merely crude approximations to one fundamental melody. --Arthur C. Clarke, The Ultimate Memory...