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US Energy: Making oil out of money?

A controversial plan to pour billions of dollars of federal funds into commercial development of “synthetic” oil and gas from coal and from oil shale is about to face a crucial test in the US House of Representatives. Colin Norman reports

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Norman, C. US Energy: Making oil out of money?. Nature 263, 88 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/263088a0

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