The extraction state : a history of natural gas in America

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 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.