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The Rock That Burns is a political novel designed to inform readers of unknown or ignored facts regarding the potential of U.S. oil shale resources to eliminate dependence on oil imports. The negative impacts of no-growth environmentalists, the Bureau of Land Management, and the giant oil company consortiums on development of these resources is depicted through fictional characters. The Rock That Burns is the story of an economics professor, a journalist, a preacher, and an Air Force pilot who oppose U.S. energy policy for different reasons and are caught in a web of international intrigue. The thesis of this novel is based on actual events. Although the story line is fictional, many of the events portrayed actually happened. All of the facts relating to oil shale resources in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming and oil shale extraction technology are accurate. The entire story depicts the struggle against economic globalism. Now more that ever, our dependence on Middle Eastern oil will endanger our economy, our way of life, and the lives American citizens. There is a way to end this dependency, but as our characters can attest, the roadblocks are not technical; they are political and at times life threatening.

Kenneth L. Gray wrote his Master’s thesis in political science on utopian political literature and his Ph.D. dissertation on Interior Department policy. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1976 and also holds a Certificate in International Relations from the University of Utah. He was employed by the Interior Department writing socioeconomic sections of environmental impact statements for proposed developments on western land and served in a similar position in private industry. He worked for several years as a supervising labor market economist for the state of Utah but left government employment to become a principal consultant for a Fortune 50™ company.

Other works by Kenneth Gray include Reinventing the Middle Class, a weekly newspaper column that deals with current economic and political conditions in the American West; Silk and Cactus, a novel about immigration and the early development of the American West, and Grand Council: Revolution on the Great American Indian Reservations, a novel about Native American civil rights and the role of the Interior Department in the development of the American West.