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Oil Droughts
Footnotes
Dust bowl: "Dust bowl is a popluar
term describing a region of 150,000 square miles (390,000 sq km) in southwestern
Kansas, southeastern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico, and the Oklahomas
and Texas panhandles, which was devastated by drought in 1933-1939."
Encyclopedia Americana, 1998, Vol. 9, page 497b.
Sahara abatement: "For seven long painful years there was a drought
in . . . the Sudano-Sahel region of Africa. Whether by divine providence
... or by meterological chance, the rains have returned to the Sahel." (Nation
220: 75FE22-197)
Science 191: 76JA9-101
Soma, Petro: The description of people
rioting for lower gas prices in England echoed England's definer of humans
addicted to a false sense of freedom and happiness:
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"Last week Britain was all but paralyzed as no more than 2,500 truckers
and farmers protested at oil refineries and depots throughout the country,
persuading tanker drivers to stay inside." (Time, Sept 25, 2000)
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"Soma distribution!" shouted a loud voice. "In good order, please,
Hurry up there." (Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932, Chapter 15, paragraph
6)
Swollen, Stuck Doors: The author
lived for over 20 years in a house outside the S.E. drought envelope. In
the summer of 2000, every few days it rained harder than the author ever
recalled. The rain was so much, so often, that doors inside the house swelled
from the high, constant humidity. Never had the doors stuck in twenty years.
With the shifting seasonal rains, Virginia entered an extended dry period
while the fall winds of which the Spanish fleets took advantage shift the
envelope southward: Miami's record torrential rainfall in Fall, 2000.
Texas Oil Fields: "Finally,
the opening of the giant east Texas field in the early 1930's produced such
a flood of oil that the Texas legislature eventually adopted a policy of
limiting production to protect the market and to conserve the state's most
valuable natural resource." Encyclopedia Americana, 1998, "Texas", Vol
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