The Unfulfilled promise of synthetic fuels : technological failure, policy immobilism, or commercial illusion

Author(s)

• Yanarella, Ernest J.
• Green, William C.

Bibliographic Information

The Unfulfilled promise of synthetic fuels : technological failure, policy immobilism, or commercial illusion

edited by Ernest J. Yanarella and William C. Green

（Contributions in political science, no. 179）

Greenwood Press, 1987

• alk. paper

Note

Bibliography: p.[213]-215

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The dismantling of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation and the shelving of scores of synfuel plant proposals have triggered a need for a searching inquiry into the reasons why the initial promise of synfuels has not been realized. In this volume a distinguished group of political scientists, policy analysts, and energy planners apply the critical tools of economic, scientific, and political analysis in an attempt to illuminate why the dream of synthetic fuels development has ended, at least temporarily. The essays collected here grapple with a variety of problems surrounding the rise and demise of synthetic fuels development in the 1970s.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I. Historical Perspectives Part II. Political and Policy Perspectives Part III. Policy Perspectives Part IV. A Prospectus on the Future Selected Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BA01243464
• ISBN:
  • 0313256667
• LCCN: 87000247
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 225 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD9502.5.S963
  • DC19 : 338.4/766266/0973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Synthetic fuels industry -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00176011