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Prospects for energy supplies
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Exploring alternative energy sources
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Gulf of Mexico oil companies gush over new drilling technology
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Region's energy sector to hold steady
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The energy tax: who pays?
An examination of the problems that arise when the government attempts to formulate economic policies having multiple objectives--in this case, reducing the nation's energy consumption and its associated social costs while ensuring that no particular region or income group bears a disproportionate share of the burden.
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Methanol as an alternative fuel: economic and health effects
Methanol, because of its low pollution characteristics, is a possible alternative to gasoline as a motor fuel. In this article, Mine K. Yucel calculates the economic, pollution, and health effects of switching from gasoline to methanol fuels. ; Yucel finds that use of methanol would lower oil demand and oil prices, while increased demand for methanol's natural gas feedstock would increase natural gas prices. Fuel prices would increase because methanol is more costly than gasoline. However, methanol use would reduce ozone pollution and some of the health risks associated with gasoline.
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Global warming policy: some economic implications
Many analysts believe that the emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from human activity are contributing to global warming, but the linkage is highly uncertain. The largest such source of these gases is carbon dioxide (CO2) from the growing consumption of fossil fuels. Consequently, the conservation of fossil fuels figures prominently in any strategy to reduce the threat of global warming. Because there is considerable uncertainty about the benefits of reducing CO2 emissions but the costs of conservation can be readily quantified, some analysts have suggested that reducing the emissions ...
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Do rising oil prices threaten economic prosperity?