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The Synthetic Fuels Corporation was a U.S. government-funded corporation established in 1980 by the ''Synthetic Fuels Corporation Act'' to create a financial bridge for the development and construction of commercial synthetic fuel manufacturing plants (such as coal gasification) that would produce alternatives to imported fossil fuels. The Great Plains coal gasification plant in Beulah, ND, still producing natural gas and sequestering carbon in 2009,〔(dakotagas.com, ''DOE receives $57 million payment from clean coal plant'' )〕 was built with the support of the Department of Energy and applied for further support by this corporation, partly as a result of efforts by Reagan's Energy Secretary James B. Edwards.〔(Time Magazine, ''Some Setbacks for Synfuels'', Sep. 14, 1981. )〕〔(NYTimes, ''North Dakota Utility to Buy U.S. Synthetic-Fuels Plant''. August 6, 1988 )〕 The corporation was abolished in 1985.〔(Federal Register: Synthetic Fuels Corporation )〕 The original intention of the corporation was to partner with industry (primarily oil and gas companies) to create a market for domestically-produced synthetic liquid fuels, with a goal of producing of liquid fuel per day within five years. Critics of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation point to its failure to achieve its goals as a reason to prevent government from interfering with free markets. The purported objective behind the Synthetic Fuels Corporation was to move research and development of synthetic fuels out of the Department of Energy and into a public-private partnership that would produce tangible results in a short period of time. Many believe that the drop in worldwide oil prices in the early 1980s played a primary role in obviating the need for the corporation, at least from a short-term economic perspective. ==See also== *Synthetic Liquid Fuels Program *Dakota Gasification Company *Colony Shale Oil Project 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Synthetic Fuels Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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