The saga of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation
Subtitle: a cautionary tale
By: Ralph L. Bayrer
Publisher: New Academia/Vellum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780983689935
Subjects: Synthetic Fuels Corporation (U.S.); History; Synthetic fuels industry; Economic history
Description: "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."--P.[4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.