The Natural Gas Market: Sixty Years of Regulation and Deregulation

by Paul W. MacAvoy

Book Overview

Over the past six decades federal regulatory agencies have attempted different strategies to regulate the natural gas industry in the United States. All have been unsuccessful, resulting in nationwide gas shortages or massive gas surpluses and costing the nation scores of billions of dollars. In addition, partial deregulation has led the regulatory agency to become more involved in controlling individual transactions among gas producers, distributors,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300083815
• ISBN13: 9780300083811
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"