This book presents a history of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels
Corporation (SFC) set in the context of the country's last
large-scale energy crisis, which hit in the 1970s. 'Synthetic
fuels' can be derived from solid coal and oil shale resources,
which in the United States contain the energy equivalent many times
over of all the oil in the Middle East. The author was Vice
President of SFC and head of the U.S. Department of Treasury office
overseeing the funded projects for ten years after Congress
terminated the program in 1986. "This book recreates a vitally
important story about our nation's energy planning that has not
been touched on before in any serious fashion. It fills a gap in
our understanding of how and why we havw wrestled ineffectively
with questions of energy independence for too many decades." -Jack
Prostko, Ph.D., The College of Professional Studies, The George
Washington University. "This book is the only substantive history
of a once-prominent government program that might as well have
reached considerable size and scope. Beyond its role as historical
resource, the work possesses a relevance to current events on the
one hand and an insight into the workings of government on the
other." -Douglas Seay, Senior staff on the House Foreign Affairs
Committee.
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