Howard S. Jonas holds a jagged rock that smells like the floor of an auto-repair garage. It's oil shale. Jonas, a lanky 54-year-old, sees it as the future of IDT, the Newark (N.J.)-based telecom company he founded in 1990. IDT's stock fell 99 percent between early 2004 and late 2008, bottoming at 66(c) a share, as telecom soured and the company lost half a billion dollars. Since then it has zoomed backup, to $12.75 on June 29, thanks to enthusiasm for IDT's oil-production experiment in western Colorado. Says Jonas: "This is the richest shale in the world."
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机译：霍华德·乔纳斯（Howard S. Jonas）拿着一块锯齿状的岩石，闻起来像汽车修理厂的地板。是油页岩。乔纳斯（Jonas）现年54岁，身材魁梧，将其视为IDT的未来，这是他于1990年创立的总部位于纽瓦克（NJ）的电信公司。IDT的股价在2004年初至2008年底之间下跌了99％，触底跌至66（c）电信业务恶化导致公司股价下跌了10亿美元。此后，由于IDT在科罗拉多州西部进行的石油生产实验的热情，它的备用备份在6月29日达到了12.75美元。乔纳斯说：“这是世界上最富有的页岩。”
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