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Factors in the Development of a Major Us Synthetic Fuels Industry

Factors in the Development of a Major Us Synthetic Fuels Industry Concern for adequate supply of liquid fuel at stable or, at most, moderately increasing prices is at the heart of the energy problem in the United States and most industrialized nations. This concern is aggravated by the concen­ stable-politically, socially, economically. Thus the threat of an interruptration of crude oil resources in regions of the world that are among the less I tion in the flow of oil from producer to consumer is ever present; so is the potential for sudden and steep price boosts, instituted either to exploit the objectives. short-term inelasticity of demand for liquid fuel or to further political To say that liquid fuel is the most pressing concern is not to neglect energy problem. Indeed, some of them 100m more threateningly without the many other issues that, between them, make up the contemporary obvious means of either averting their emergence or remedying their conse­ ciated with greatly expanding fossil energy use, particularly coal, and the quences. To name only two; the carbon dioxide problem prominently asso­ weapons-proliferation problems associated with nuclear energy. But the liquid fuel problem exists now, and in the pursuit of sufficient, affordably priced supplies nations are more likely-and sooner-to plunge http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Environment and Resources Annual Reviews

Factors in the Development of a Major Us Synthetic Fuels Industry

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Annual Reviews
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Copyright 1981 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
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1543-5938
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10.1146/annurev.eg.06.110181.001313
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Concern for adequate supply of liquid fuel at stable or, at most, moderately increasing prices is at the heart of the energy problem in the United States and most industrialized nations. This concern is aggravated by the concen­ stable-politically, socially, economically. Thus the threat of an interruptration of crude oil resources in regions of the world that are among the less I tion in the flow of oil from producer to consumer is ever present; so is the potential for sudden and steep price boosts, instituted either to exploit the objectives. short-term inelasticity of demand for liquid fuel or to further political To say that liquid fuel is the most pressing concern is not to neglect energy problem. Indeed, some of them 100m more threateningly without the many other issues that, between them, make up the contemporary obvious means of either averting their emergence or remedying their conse­ ciated with greatly expanding fossil energy use, particularly coal, and the quences. To name only two; the carbon dioxide problem prominently asso­ weapons-proliferation problems associated with nuclear energy. But the liquid fuel problem exists now, and in the pursuit of sufficient, affordably priced supplies nations are more likely-and sooner-to plunge

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Annual Review of Environment and Resources – Annual Reviews

Published: Nov 1, 1981

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