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PARACHUTE, Colo. -- John Loschke climbs out of his truck in the cramped parking lot outside the Outlaws restaurant and surveys the collection of cars, trucks and RVs.
It's lunch hour on a hot summer day and he figures about 70 percent of the vehicles bear the unmistakable signs of oil and gas country. It reminds Loschke, the town's mayor, of the chaotic scene when Parachute's fortunes were changed during an oil shale boom some 30 years ago.See the full content of this document
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West Seeing New Energy Boom
Today's energy boom, he says, is "managed chaos."
"We're better prepared. It's 25 years later, and we've got infrastructure," he said.Some two decades after the West's last oil bust, production of coal, natural ...See the full content of this document
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