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A cautious boom in oil shale in the United States |
| Home | (IHT) - GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado: Oil shale has never made an American company more than a few cents; quite a few, in fact, have lost countless millions over the last century trying to cook oil out of the rock. R. Glenn Vawter, who has worked as an executive for many of the losers, knows all that only too well. Oil shale's many starts and stops have driven Vawter's career, but also unsettled his family life, forcing 37 moves during one 25-year spell early in his career. |