The Unfulfilled Promise of Synthetic Fuels
Subtitle: Technological Failure, Policy Immobilism, or Commercial Illusion (Contributions in Political Science)
Contributors: Ernest J. Yanarella (Editor); William C. Green (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: August 26, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780313256660
Subjects: Industry & Industrial Studies; Industries - General; Energy Policy (Economic Aspects); Synthetic Fuels; Business / Economics / Finance; Synthetic fuels industry; United States; Politics/International Relations
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.