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The saga of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation : a cautionary tale / Ralph L. Bayrer.
Lippincott Library HD9502.5.S962 B39 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bayrer, Ralph L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Synthetic Fuels Corporation (U.S.)--History.
- Synthetic Fuels Corporation (U.S.).
- Synthetic fuels industry--United States--History.
- Synthetic fuels industry.
- Economic history.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 405 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C : New Academia/Vellum, [2011]
- Summary:
- "This book presents a history of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation (SFC) set in the context of the country's last large-scale energy crisis, which hit in the 1970s. 'Synthetic fuels' can be derived from solid coal and oil shale resources, which in the United States contain the energy equivalent many times over of all the oil in the Middle East."--Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780983689935
- 0983689938
- OCLC:
- 763250643
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