Industry: Paying the Piper

Man has taken to burying many of the things that are important to him: his business records, the gold that backs his money, his nuclear missiles, and in some instances even his factories and food supply. Beneath a land that is be coming increasingly crowded on the sur face, he has also buried the tubes through which flow much of his source of energy. Nowhere is this truer than in the U.S., where underground pipes now carry 42% of all the nation's energy fuels in a vast network that stretches four times...

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