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Midday
at the Oasis
"Having never
pumped a pint, let alone a gallon of gasoline, this station-that-never-was has
become our symbol for a particular period in Texas history." |
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Currently there is a commercial
running on television that shows how this country has become dependent upon foreign
oil to keep us going. The man behind the scene advocates us using more natural
gas as well as wind power. He goes on to show how our dependence has grown over
the past thirty or forty years..Cheap
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6-1-08
Maybe we all can agree that gasoline is on the front burner right now; so to speak.
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Politics
has again reared its ugly head, and this time, the platform is "Corn produces
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first "over water" oil well
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In the early l900s, 27-year-old Walter B. Pyron, of Blossom,
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"..We’ve
known that our dependency on foreign oil has been going up for the past twenty
years and not one of the administrations; both republican and democratic have
chosen to do anything about it. We just stick our collective heads in the sand
and act as if there isn’t anything wrong and that all will be ok....""High
Pockets" and a Near Death Experience by N. Ray Maxie
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