The Great Plains Gasification Project: The Problem of Juridical/Administrative Incompatibility

Robert A. Solo

The Energy Journal, 1987, vol. 8, issue 2, 153-168

Abstract: Such is the public memory (and so completely has the problem vanished from the scene) that some will recall only with difficulty the vast and costly program on which President Jimmy Carter staked so much-to reduce the American dependence on imported petroleum through the production of substitute synthetic fuels from coal. The major component of that program was a project to produce a synthetic natural gas from coal. And yet even in 1982 in a special issue of The Energy Journal devoted entirely to natural gas, so absorbed were the authors with the process of decontrol, market distortions in a situation of partial decontrol, and apprehension at the prospect of a possible windfall profit tax that the matter of synthetic fuels had dropped entirely out of sight. There was not a single mention of Project Independence. Nor was there any concern for the fundamental problem of replacing a depletable and rapidly depleting resource.

Keywords: Great Plains gasification project; Coal; North Dakota; FERC; Energy policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol8-No2-12

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