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...ready for rationing. Other conservation efforts should be backed by stiff legal sanctions; speeding drivers, for example, should be tagged with steep fines. The Government will have to get on more swiftly with the job of developing new energy sources, including the immediate leasing of federally owned lands for shale-oil production. Senator Henry Jackson's bill, calling for expenditures of $20 billion over 10 years for a research and development program to explore the potential of such untapped sources as coal gasification and liquefaction, could be an important step forward in ensuring that the nation's future...
...bearing shale has huge potential for the long term. The Green River formation, which runs through Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, contains an estimated 600 billion bbl. of low-polluting shale oil, enough to fill the country's needs at current consumption levels for almost 100 years. About 72% of the deposits are on federally owned lands, and the Government will probably soon lease some of them for commercial plants, where oil can be extracted by crushing and heating the brown shale. It could take six years to get such plants into operation, and refined shale oil can probably be produced...
...consumers could also greatly accelerate research into ways of efficiently developing non-Arab sources of fuel. The Rocky Mountain shale and Athabascan tar sands of Canada may hold more oil than all the sands of the Arab deserts; some estimates run as high as 1.5 trillion bbl. Liquefication and gasification of coal could provide a low-polluting way of using that superabundant fuel. But the capital investment required is staggering: $5 billion to $7 billion to get 1,000,000 bbl. of oil a day out of shale or tar sands. Senator Jackson has been advocating a U.S. emergency research...
...century-old mansion surrounded by stables, swimming pool, tennis courts and a cemetery for thoroughbreds. Penny Tweedy, 51, inherited the 2,600-acre farm from her father Christopher Chenery, the public utilities magnate who founded the stable. The wife of John Tweedy, executive vice president of The Oil Shale Corp., and the mother of four, Mrs. Tweedy has been a lifelong horsewoman, a rider of show horses since her childhood in Pelham Manor, N.Y. After Smith College and a stint as a Red Cross "donut dolly" in France and Germany during World War II, she entered the Columbia Graduate School...
...vast amounts of shale found in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming could also be important sources of oil, yielding about 25 gallons for every ton excavated. Both shale mining, which leaves great quantities of waste material above the surface, and strip-mining for coal despoil the landscape. But the exploited landscape could satisfactorily be restored-at a price...