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...pulled over, the cop probably says I'm sorry governor-general, I didn't know it was you. Go right on. So the governor-general probably takes out this Jensen Interceptor--this is the picture I have, see--late at night sometimes, and hauls along the beach where the sand is flat and hard, past the palm trees, watching the waves break, mayby making 110, 120. It's just a nice thing to think about, you know, not that it's important or anything. It's not important. God knows why people are always asking me about this, because what...
Rusting and broken pipelines and stretches of barbed wire litter the sand around the deserted town of Ras Sudr, once a dusty bedroom community for Egyptian and foreign workers at the nearby oilfields. The wells of Ras Sudr produce only 3,000 bbl. of crude a day−a trickle by Middle Eastern standards and only a fraction of the 75,000 bbl. daily pumped out of Abu Rudeis. But the desolate, cactus-covered patch of desert with its huddle of workers' decaying cottages has a considerable symbolic importance. Under the second Sinai accord worked out last summer...
...west. The town is just 30 miles south of the spot where, according to local tradition, Moses struck the rock and made water gush forth. Instead of striking a rock, Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Ahmed Ezzedin Hilal turned a valve and a jet of black crude spurted across the sand. "God be praised," Hilal said. "I cannot express in words the happiness I feel...
...after another, Egyptian dignitaries took turns opening the valve and sending jets of oil across the sand. Finally, an executive of Mobil Oil−a partner of the Egyptian oil firm that controls the wells−warned: "Better hold off, boys. That stuff is worth ten dollars a barrel...
...drink." Or, "Why don't we discuss your thirst, because you may not be as thirsty as you think, and anyway, you're not thirsty enough to drink that." Or, "No, wait. Don't drink that. The best thing for you, if you're really thirsty is this sand, no, seriously, you just take some of it like this and.." I wonder if I might have better luck if I turned to someone in Chem 20 or Ec 10 and told them that the system they want to become a part of is not really practicable, equitable, or even desirable...