TY  - BOOK
AU  - Toman,Michael A.
ED  - Rand Corporation.
TI  - Unconventional fossil-based fuels: economic and environmental trade-offs 
T2  - Technical report
SN  - 0833046411
AV  - TN871 .U49 2008eb
U1  - 333.79/68 22
PY  - 2008///
KW  - Coal liquefaction
KW  - Heavy oil
KW  - Oil sands
KW  - Petroleum engineering
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - Energy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Environmental Policy
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Power Resources
KW  - General
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-72); Introduction -- History and context of unconventional fossil-resource development -- Carbon capture and storage for unconventional fuels -- Oil sands and synthetic crude oil -- Coal-to-liquids production -- Competitiveness of unit production costs for synthetic crude oil and coal-to-liquids -- Conclusions; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - Both high import payments for petroleum motor fuels and concerns regarding emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are motivating interest in possible fuel substitutes. Petroleum products derived from conventional crude oil constitute more than 50 percent of end-use energy deliveries in the United States and more than 95 percent of all energy used in the U.S. transportation sector. Almost 60 percent of liquid fuels are imported. Emissions from the consumption of petroleum account for 44 percent of the nation's CO2 emissions, with approximately 33 percent of national CO2 emissions resulting from transportation-fuel use. In this report, RAND researchers assess the potential future production levels, production costs, greenhouse gases, and other environmental implications of synthetic crude oil extracted from oil sands and fuels produced via coal liquefaction relative to conventional petroleum-based transportation fuels. The findings indicate the potential cost-competitiveness of these alternative fuels and the potential trade-offs that their deployment requires between economic and environmental considerations
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/tr580ncep
ER  -