TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pleatsikas, Christopher J.
TI  - Solar energy and the U.S. economy / 
SN  - 9781000276237 
U1  - 338.5443 C556S 1982 
PY  - 1982///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Solar energy
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Energy policy
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - General
N1  - INTRODUCTION, STUDY DESIGN, AND ASSUMPTIONS, ECONOMIC AND ENERGY PERFORMANCE IN THE REFERENCE CASE, ENERGY AND THE ECONOMY: EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN ENERGY CONDITIONS, ENERGY CHANGES AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EFFICIENT POLICIES TOWARD RENEWABLE ENERGY, TABLES
N2  - first published in 1982. Twice during the 1970s--the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973-74 and the tight oil market of 1978-79 associated with the political upheaval in Iran--the U.S. economy experienced severe shocks as a result of massive price increases for imported oil. By 1980 the price for imported crude oil had increased to nearly twenty times the price in 1970
ER  -