Blanchard, Charles. <br/><br/>
The Extraction State :  A History of Natural Gas in America. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (406 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> The Story of Natural Gas's Rise from Unwanted Byproduct to Essential Fuel Source. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822987772 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Gas industry-United States-History.<br/>Natural gas-United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD9581 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.272850973