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...squeeze. Higher transportation and utility rates will hurt even companies and small businesses that do not rely directly on oil or petrochemicals. For high energy users like the aluminum industry, the costs of gas, electricity and oil are going up faster than any other production expenses. Prices of nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer, which use natural gas as a raw material, jumped by 30% after price controls were lifted. Textile producers also face limited production because 65% of their fibers are synthetics derived from oil. Shortages may also arise in such disparate items as lipstick, nylon stockings, phonograph records, toys, garbage...
With Biochemist David Gutnick, Rosenberg isolated a genus of bacteria called arthrobacter, which feast on crude oil, and then developed a particularly fast-multiplying new strain, which they named "RAG-1."* Bred in salt water enriched with phosphorus and nitrogen compounds, the strain gobbles up the paraffin (waxy) content of crude oil, leaving only small droplets of dewaxed oil that break down quickly in nature and become harmless carbon dioxide and water...
...Slick. Going to the source of the problem, Rosenberg and Gutnick last winter boarded a 125,000-ton tanker to give RAG1 a practical test. Selecting two of the ship's tanks, which were each filled with 100 tons of sea water, they poured 55 lbs. of nitrogen-containing urea and 2.2 lbs. of potassium phosphates into each. Shipboard compressors were used to bubble air into the tanks through a perforated hose, thus turning them into ideal "bacterial fermenters," says Rosenberg. Then a flaskful of RAG1 bacteria was poured into one tank. Six and a half days later...
...system, which means our cattle don't have to stand in mud. It's a hotel for cattle." In order to cut costs, Stratford grows its own feeds, which are fertilized by manure from its own cattle. A division of the company enriches waste rice hulls with nitrogen for feed. To speed up digestion of grain in a cow's four stomach cavities, Stratford converts corn and milo into flakes. All these cost-shaving techniques mean that Stratford can fatten cattle at 30 to 40 per pound below the national average. The chicken branch, centered near Tenaha...
...sympathetic to such efforts; on a visit to Detroit in February, Domestic Affairs Chief John Ehrlichman said that parts of the law do not make "common sense" and could bring "ridiculous consequences." Ruckelshaus agrees that the law should be changed to reduce the allowable limits for nitrogen oxides that are scheduled to go into effect on '76-model cars. New medical evidence, he says, shows that the levels set three years ago were unreasonably strict. However, Ruckelshaus insists that the White House put no pressure on him during the current debate, and believes that the year's delay...