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Article: Clean Cheap Heat: the Development of Residential Markets for Natural Gas in the United States.
- Article from:
- Southern Economic Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 1993
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 Southern Economic Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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This short monograph traces the development of residential natural gas markets from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. It endeavors to demonstrate how various social, economic, and technological factors interacted to bring a relatively new energy source from obscurity to widespread use by the residential sector. Among the significant factors leading to the emergence of natural gas as a major energy source according to the author was the development and refinement of specific natural using appliances coupled with the Natural Gas Act of 1938 and the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978. To this should be added the relative price differential between natural gas ...