The unfulfilled promise of synthetic fuels technological failure, policy immobilism, or commercial illusion
Title:
The unfulfilled promise of synthetic fuels technological failure, policy immobilism, or commercial illusion
Author:
Yanarella, Ernest J.
ISBN:
9780313389504
Publication Information:
New York : Greenwood Press, 1987.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 225 p.) : ill.
Series:
Contributions in political science, no. 179
Contributions in political science ; no. 179.
Contents:
Business, government, and markets : synthetic fuels policy in America / Synthetic fuel technology nondevelopment and the hiatus effect : the implications of inconsistent public policy / Technological policy making in congress : the creation of the U.S. synthetic fuels corporation / The synthetic fuels corporation as an organizational failure in policy mobilization / A state government's experience with the synthetic fuels movement : the case of Kentucky / Class-based environmentalism in a small town : ERDA's "Gasifiers in industry" program and the Georgetown, Kentucky, controversy / Public ambivalence about synthetic fuels and other new energy development / Socioeconomic impacts of large-scale development projects in the western United States : implications for synthetic fuels commercialization / Synthetic fuels abroad : energy development in high energy dependency areas / Prospects of synthetic fuels in the United States : past lessons and future requirements
Abstract:
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.
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