The Unfulfilled Promise of Synthetic Fuels: Technological Failure, Policy Immobilism, or Commercial Illusion

The Unfulfilled Promise of Synthetic Fuels: Technological Failure, Policy Immobilism, or Commercial Illusion

The Unfulfilled Promise of Synthetic Fuels: Technological Failure, Policy Immobilism, or Commercial Illusion

The Unfulfilled Promise of Synthetic Fuels: Technological Failure, Policy Immobilism, or Commercial Illusion

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Overview

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 synthetic fuels development in the 1970s.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313256660
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/26/1987
Series: Contributions in Political Science , #17
Pages: 243
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

ERNEST J. YANARELLA is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky.

WILLIAM C. GREEN is Associate Professor of Government at Morehead State University and Research Associate at the Institute for Mining and Minerals Research, University of Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. Historical Perspectives
Part II. Political and Policy Perspectives
Part III. Policy Perspectives
Part IV. A Prospectus on the Future
Selected Bibliography
Index

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