Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Wells now pump oil right out from underneath Main Street, and dozens more dot the surrounding buttes. Cranes lay down sections of pipe across snow and sagebrush that will carry gas from well to processing plants. Helicopters whir overhead. Hundreds of workers live in trailers and tents in fields, along the river banks, or wherever a friendly rancher will let them camp...
...love to be here, but this is where the action is," says Bob Blaylock, 25, a roughneck who makes $1,300 a week installing oil-rigging equipment. "This is Oil City, U.S.A., and you can put up with...
...will not do as well this year. In an effort to better his profits, Hanson now breeds his cows as two-year-olds - a year earlier than before - fattens his steers another 150 lbs., up from 650 lbs., companies selling them, and leases parts of his land to oil and gas companies for exploration at $1 per year per acre...
...year 2005. At the White House an agitated aide rushes into the Oval Office with grim news. "Mr. President," he announces, "OPEC has just raised its prices by another 10%, and oil will be going up to $450 a barrel by next January." To the assistant's surprise, though, the Chief Executive seems unconcerned. "Don't worry," says the President. "This time it isn't going to matter. We will have another three solar satellites on line by early next year, so we can tell those cartel characters to take their oil and [expletives deleted...
...scenario calling for complete U.S. freedom from foreign oil supplies is probably a petro-pipedream. But the notion of using solar satellites to capture vast amounts of energy may not be very farfetched at all. In spite of considerable scoffing at the sci-fi grandiosity of the idea, a report published last week, after a threeyear, $19.5 million study undertaken by the Department of Energy in collaboration with NASA, indicates that there are no insurmountable technological hurdles in the way of solar power satellites (SPS) as a major alternative energy source...