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...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...
...Presidency is the most powerful office in the world. It is the highest and most controlling position in the federal government of the United States; a government which spends annually more than a quarter of a trillion dollars, which employs 15 per cent of the work force of the country and, most importantly, a government which has a pervasive and growing influence over the most affluent and sophisticated society in world history...
...mysterious UFO, named Rama by its puzzled observers, is a metallic cylinder more than 30 miles long and twelve across and weighing about ten trillion tons. With time running out and Rama's intentions unknown, decisions have to be made. The nearest humans to Rama are Commander Bill Norton and his crew aboard the spaceship Endeavour. They undertake a reconnaissance of Rama's innards, crawling about the spotless metal sky like flies on some behemoth's twitching flank...
Prognos researchers believe West Germany should be able to continue growing at a 4.5% yearly rate. If it does, the West German economy by 1985 could more than double in size and reach the 1 trillion Deutsche Mark level-about $418 billion at current rates. Meanwhile, Prognos reckons, France will still be a distant second, with a G.N.P. of about $270 billion; Britain, with a $150 billion G.N.P., will remain in third place, only slightly ahead of Italy (comparisons are difficult because of distortions in exchange rates...
...first two oilfields in the sea did not begin producing until last year. At least four more fields are scheduled to begin pumping by the end of 1974. Total deposits under the chill waters are estimated to be 12 billion bbl. of oil and 50 trillion cu. ft. of gas. That is rather small by Middle Eastern standards-the oil reserves would supply only two years of Mideast production-but large by almost any others. For example, the North Sea deposits probably exceed the 10 billion bbl. of oil estimated to lie under Alaska's North Slope...