Word: crudely
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...This time, it's not OPEC. At $28 per bbl., crude oil prices may be high. But America's current gasoline-supply problem is its own. No new refineries have been built in over two decades; indeed, the opposite has happened as refiners took excess capacity off the market. Inventories are nearing historic lows. Any disruption in the refining process or distribution system chokes gas supplies, driving prices...
...part of the problem has been the cost of crude, from which gasoline is refined. OPEC has cut production twice since President Bush took office--the first time in January, the second in March--by a total of 2.5 million bbl. a day. That has pushed up prices to about $28 per bbl., the high end of OPEC's target zone...
...what? As a crude American, I enjoy comix more for how well they entertain me, than for how much mileage I can get out of deconstructing them. I will leave that to the French. As a comic, regardless of its origins, Stéphane Heuet's "Remembrance of Things Past," makes for a fine read, evoking a lost world, not just of physical superficialities, but of the very thoughts of the time. I am sure even the book's harshest critics would agree that a little Proust is better than none...
...partner. Rather than cut off our UN dues, Congress ought to pay them immediately and in full. This would be a signal of America’s intention to move on and strengthen its position within the UN. A refusal to pay our debts would be seen as a crude attempt at blackmail by a conservative Congress determined on a policy of international isolation...
...scared. I had a rocket launcher, and I fired it into the monastery. It went quiet. When we went in to look, there were a lot of dead. A French priest and some nuns. That's what war is. You can't describe it. It sounds crude, but you just had to be there...