Contents
Part I: Making Use of a Useless Byproduct, 1878–1954
Chapter 1: The Smoky City
Chapter 2: Going Back to Smoke
Chapter 3: The Rise of the Power Trust
Chapter 4: Regulation and Rejuvenation
Chapter 5: Wartime Pipes and the Postwar Boom
Part II: A Manufactured Shortage of Natural Gas, 1954–1992
Chapter 6: Regulation and Ruin
Chapter 7: Stopping a Freight Train
Chapter 8: The End of Abundance
Chapter 9: From Scarcity to Surplus
Chapter 10: The Gas Bubble and the End of Merchant Service
Part III: A (Mostly) Free Market and Its Discontents, 1992–2020
Chapter 11: Gas Becomes a Commodity
Chapter 12: The Dash for Gas
Chapter 13: Speculation on a Galactic Scale
Chapter 14: Shale
Chapter 15: Aftermath
Notes
Bibliography
Index