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The Extraction State : A History of Natural Gas in America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (406 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822987772
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Extraction StateDDC classification:
  • 338.272850973
LOC classification:
  • HD9581
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Part I: Making Use of a Useless Byproduct, 1878-1954 -- Chapter 1: The Smoky City -- Chapter 2: Going Back to Smoke -- Chapter 3: The Rise of the Power Trust -- Chapter 4: Regulation and Rejuvenation -- Chapter 5: Wartime Pipes and the Postwar Boom -- Part II: A Manufactured Shortage of Natural Gas, 1954-1992 -- Chapter 6: Regulation and Ruin -- Chapter 7: Stopping a Freight Train -- Chapter 8: The End of Abundance -- Chapter 9: From Scarcity to Surplus -- Chapter 10: The Gas Bubble and the End of Merchant Service -- Part III: A (Mostly) Free Market and Its Discontents, 1992-2020 -- Chapter 11: Gas Becomes a Commodity -- Chapter 12: The Dash for Gas -- Chapter 13: Speculation on a Galactic Scale -- Chapter 14: Shale -- Chapter 15: Aftermath -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The Story of Natural Gas's Rise from Unwanted Byproduct to Essential Fuel Source.
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Intro -- Contents -- Part I: Making Use of a Useless Byproduct, 1878-1954 -- Chapter 1: The Smoky City -- Chapter 2: Going Back to Smoke -- Chapter 3: The Rise of the Power Trust -- Chapter 4: Regulation and Rejuvenation -- Chapter 5: Wartime Pipes and the Postwar Boom -- Part II: A Manufactured Shortage of Natural Gas, 1954-1992 -- Chapter 6: Regulation and Ruin -- Chapter 7: Stopping a Freight Train -- Chapter 8: The End of Abundance -- Chapter 9: From Scarcity to Surplus -- Chapter 10: The Gas Bubble and the End of Merchant Service -- Part III: A (Mostly) Free Market and Its Discontents, 1992-2020 -- Chapter 11: Gas Becomes a Commodity -- Chapter 12: The Dash for Gas -- Chapter 13: Speculation on a Galactic Scale -- Chapter 14: Shale -- Chapter 15: Aftermath -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Story of Natural Gas's Rise from Unwanted Byproduct to Essential Fuel Source.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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