Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series)
A lively book about an obscure state regulatory body that, through an accident of geology and jurisdiction, wields enormous power in determining how oil and gas are produced and sold in this country. Prindle delights in pointing out the cozy relationship between the Texas Railroad Commission and the industries it regulates.... Prindle, who writes with a fine ability to make technical and economic issues interesting, is appalled by the free-market rhetoric so often mouthed by producers in recent years.... “Debate over government regulation takes place in a twilight zone between outright propaganda and cherished myth,” he writes.... (The Washington Monthly)