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The Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act: Context and Content

Description: Debate over natural gas pricing has included the consideration of a windfall profit tax, with the oil windfall profit tax as a possible guide to what might be levied on natural gas at the wellhead. This report reviews the issues surrounding the enactment of the crude oil windfall profit tax, spells out its provisions, and provides data on the revenues collected and anticipated.
Date: December 17, 1981
Creator: Gelb, Bernard A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Power Generation: More Energy from Less Fuel

Description: This report discusses magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) power generation, which is a method for converting heat directly into electrical energy without the use of a rotating electrical power generator.
Date: October 7, 1981
Creator: Crane, Langdon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Persian Gulf Oil Trade: Numbers and Issues

Description: "This report is an overview of the role of Persian Gulf petroleum exporters in world oil supply" (p. iii).
Date: May 27, 1987
Creator: Kumins, Lawrence C.; Bamberger, Robert L. & Passarelli, Michelle
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy and the 97th Congress: Overview

Description: During his campaign, President Reagan called for a major shift in this country's energy policy. In particular, the President emphasized the need for more domestic production of energy and reliance on market forces to produce and distribute energy products. Now in office, the new Administration is employing executive, administrative, and legislative methods to implement these changes.
Date: November 10, 1982
Creator: Parker, Larry; Bamberger, Robert L. & Behrens, Carl E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Soviet Gas Pipeline: U.S. Options

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Date: October 8, 1982
Creator: Hardt, John P. & Gold, Donna L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Leasing of Energy and Mineral Resources on Federal Lands

Description: This report discusses the leasing of energy and mineral resources on federal lands. Leasing of energy minerals has been an issue of varying intensity for most of the past century, as oil, gas, and coal became indispensable commodities in both U.S. and world commerce.
Date: August 9, 1982
Creator: Lindahl, David M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Natural Gas Policy Act

Description: The Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA) culminated decades of dispute over natural gas policy and was the "centerpiece of President Carter's National Energy Act. Now there are many issues of both regulatory and legislative concerns under discussion. These items were unanticipated by the framers of this difficult and delicate compromise. Generally speaking, they all stem from the fact that oil prices more than doubled in 1979 and 1980. The NGPA1s framers set wellhead gas prices within the new … more
Date: January 20, 1983
Creator: Kumins, Lawrence C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Efficiency Standards for Appliances: Are They Needed?

Description: The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA! (P.L. 94-163), as amended by the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (NEPCA) (P.L. 95-619) , requires that energy efficiency standards be established for each of 13 classes of appliances that are major consumers of energy. NEPCA stipulates that such standards "be designed to achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency which the Secretary [of Energ'y] determines is technologically feasible and economically justified." The Department of E… more
Date: December 12, 1983
Creator: Crane, Langdon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Soviet Pipeline

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Date: October 22, 1982
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Three Utility Financing Issues

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Date: May 17, 1984
Creator: Morrison, Sylvia & Flaherty, Kevin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Three Utility Financing Issues

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Date: May 17, 1984
Creator: Morrison, Sylvia & Flaherty, Kevin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Changing Role for Federal Energy R&D

Description: This paper discusses and analyzes the major issues evolving from the changes in funding.
Date: February 17, 1983
Creator: Marcus, Gail H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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