TY - BOOK AU - Blanchard,Charles TI - The Extraction State: A History of Natural Gas in America SN - 9780822987772 AV - HD9581 U1 - 338.272850973 PY - 2021/// CY - PIttsburgh PB - University of Pittsburgh Press KW - Gas industry-United States-History KW - Natural gas-United States KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - The Story of Natural Gas's Rise from Unwanted Byproduct to Essential Fuel Source UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=28368947 ER -