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Clean cheap heat : the development of residential markets for natural gas in the United States

The author credits the appearance of particular appliances which helped spawn natural gas use, notes legislative developments such as the Natural Gas Act of 1938 and the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, and shows the various effects of regulation and price changes on the market.
eBook, English, 1992
Praeger, New York, 1992
History
1 online resource (x, 190) : illustrations, maps
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Preface Introduction The Market near the Turn of the Century Changes in the Market during the 1920s The 1930s and the Great Depression The Second World War and Its Aftermath Growth in the Market between 1950 and 1973 Lack of Growth in Markets after 1973 Quantitative Analyses for the Period after 1960 Summary and Conclusion Appendix I: Additional Estimates Appendix II: Estimates from Various Studies Appendix III: A New Economic Model Based on Balestra's Model Appendix IV: Data Used to Estimate the Equations in Chapters 2 and 3 Bibliographic Essay Index
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010