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...still practically a virgin, but driving to Ketchum Sun Valley, Idaho would open her up some--about 2400 miles passed between her well-tempered hubs before we called our trip quits. But that wasn't til Tuesday morning when all was grey and cold and clammy and out rotting elk head lashed to the front of the van stunk of urine and flung in our grimy, dog-tired faces chunks of what little flesh remained on its fly-picked skull. Friday was wide and sun-strung. We headed for interstate 80. We made good time and crossed the country...
...domestic exploration and drilling. Oil company executives argue that the current price is necessary to pay the cost of new domestic production, but Jackson responds: "Baloney. Just look at the record: production has gone down steadily." To boost U.S. production, he would open to production the federal reserves at Elk Hills, Calif., and Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 in Alaska, and set up a board to coordinate and accelerate development on the continental shelf, perhaps through a Government-assisted consortium of several companies. Jackson considers Ford's immediate goal of cutting U.S. oil imports by 1 million...
...Federal oil reserves will be tapped to increase the U.S. strategic reserve. Elk Hills, one of seven naval petroleum reserves, will be brought up to full production now that the opposition of the House Armed
...will miss us. As the sheep men leave the scene and no longer finance predator-control programs, the adaptable coyote will soon develop an increasing taste for antelope, deer and elk. These will be the next to feel the impact of being the sacrifice species...
More Austere. The Pentagon does have more capability of increasing supplies than civilian businesses do. Indeed, nearly half the deficiency caused by the Arab embargo can be made up by tapping the naval reserves at Elk Hills. Calif. The field's current output of 5,000 bbl. a day can be boosted to 160,000 bbl. a day in three months if Congress authorizes the increase, as the Energy Emergency Bill passed by the Senate and now before the House would have it do. But the oil-parched military, unable to wait, has invoked an existing...