Author: Clark, John G.
Title: Energy and the Federal Government: Fossil Fuel Policies, 1900-1946
Description: Urbana, University of Illinois Press, (1987). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xxiii, 511 pp. Textual maps & tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction; The Promises of 1904; The Fuel Industries in the Early 20th Century; Emergent Government Fuel Policies Before World War I; Wartime Coal Policies; Wartime Power, Natural Gas & Oil Policies; The Coal Crises of the 1920s; Federal Responses to the Energy Transition of the 1920s; The Politics of Energy during the Prosperity Decade; Oil Politics during the Early Depression Years; Regulating the Oil Industry during the New Deal; Federal Policies toward the Bituminous Industry during the New Deal; A Prewar Balance Sheet for the Fuel Industries; Before Pearl Harbor; Wartime Administration of Petroleum; Wartime Administration of Soild Fuels;Federal Fuel Policies, 1900-1946: An Evaluation.

Keywords: American Energy Policy, United States, Federal Government, Administration, Regulation History, Fossil Fuels Fuel, Oil Petroleum Coal, Natural Gas Economy, Economics Economic