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Health Risk from a Coal Tar Disposal Site
This report is part of a series that develops and applies a general methodology for assessing the chronic health risks of toxic pollutant emissions. It applies the general framework and the computer program WTRISK to a study of a coal tar disposal site.
May 1, 1988
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Health Risks of Toxic Emissions from a Coal-Fired Power Plant
This report is the fifth in a series dealing with the human health risks of toxic substances emitted by coal-fired power plants.
Jul 1, 1987
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Two Concepts in the Production of Liquid Fossil Fuels
Documents the results of an analysis of two novel approaches to the production of liquid fuels from coal and oil shale that might offer major benefits over current fossil fuel technologies.
Jan 1, 1987
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A Case Study of Beryllium Emissions from a Coal-Fired Power Plant
This Note broadens that case study of selenium emissions to include beryllium discharges from the power plant.
Aug 1, 1986
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Evaluating the Proposed Test Drawdown and Sale of Strategic Petroleum Reserve Oil
To prepare better for an emergency, DOE has conducted several exercises to test the Reserve's administrative and operational systems.
Oct 1, 1985
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Alternative Models for Risk Assessment of Toxic Emissions
This Note is the second in a series of RAND reports developing and applying a general methodology for assessing the control costs and chronic health risks of toxic pollutant emissions from coal-fired electric power plants.
Apr 1, 1985
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Direct investment in petroleum ventures in developing countries: a review of risks and strategies
This paper explores the impact of political risk on foreign direct investment in petroleum ventures in those developing countries that are not members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. It coordinates and analyzes information from ...
Jan 1, 1985
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Review of Cost Improvement Literature with Emphasis on Synthetic Fuel Facilities and the Petroleum and Chemical Process Industries
... documents a review of the publicly available literature on cost improvement, defined as the reduction in a technology's unit product cost that typically occurs as experience with the technology is gained.
Jan 1, 1985
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Risk-Cost Assessment Methodology for Toxic Pollutants from Fossil Fuel Power Plants
Describes the development and application of a general methodology for assessing the control costs and chronic health risks of toxic pollutant emissions from coal-fired electric power plants.
Jun 1, 1983
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Market Behavior Under Partial Price Controls: The Case of the Retail Gasoline Market
This report examines the behavior of an otherwise competitive market in the presence of such regulation-induced nonprice phenomena.
Jan 1, 1983
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Evolution of the Regulation of High Cost Gas Supplies
This analysis examines the impasse that has developed in the formulation of a federal regulatory policy for facilities to manufacture synthetic natural gas (SNG) from coal.
Feb 1, 1980
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Mexico’s Petroleum and U.S. Policy: Implications for the 1980s
This report analyzes key factors that will influence Mexico's future petroleum policies, projects expected policy outcomes, and assesses the implications of these policies for U.S. interests, objectives, and options for the 1980s.
Jan 1, 1980
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The outlook for conventional petroleum resources
Focuses on general approaches to world petroleum resource assessment. The author establishes the nature and concentration of petroleum reserves and the efficiency of modern petroleum exploration. He demonstrates that conventional petroleum resource a...
Jan 1, 1979
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Petroleum Regulation: The False Dilemma of Decontrol
A comprehensive analysis of the interrelationships between price controls, oil production technology, product demand, tariff policy, and world trade, as applied to the petroleum industry.
Jan 1, 1977
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The Distributional Implications of a Tax on Gasoline.
Prepared for the 1975 meeting of the Western Economic Association. In the continuing debate over the advantages and disadvantages of a gasoline tax as opposed to a general petroleum tax or some form of rationing of gasoline or other petroleum product...
Jan 1, 1975
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How To Save Gasoline: Public Policy Alternatives for the Automobile (Executive Summary)
This is an executive summary of R-1560 and is included therein.
Jan 1, 1974
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How To Save Gasoline: Public Policy Alternatives for the Automobile
Sought to devise analytical tools to evaluate the effects on private transportation of national energy conservation measures, to apply these tools in a systematic analysis to compare the effectiveness of several alternative policy instrument...
Jan 1, 1974
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Protecting the U.S. Petroleum Market against Future Denials of Imports.
Protecting the U.S. Petroleum Market against Future Denials of Imports.
Jan 1, 1974
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Petroleum — A Prediction Made in 1950
Written in March-April of 1950, this paper outlines the world petroleum situation at that time, and predicts its effect on the United States. 1950 data on the world's oil sources and known reserves clearly indicated a depleted supply.
Jan 1, 1973
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The Effect of Petroleum Fuel Storage Stability on Prepositioning Costs.
A survey of the literature for an answer to the question: How long and under what conditions can POL be stored at a given level of quality? Information about the type of storage and handling facilities that will allow a particular quality of fuel to...
Jan 1, 1970

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