Research that Informs Business and Public Policy
Last week I provided my reactions to Senator Feinstein’s letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on market manipulation of gas prices after the Chevron Richmond refinery fire. Speaking of prices … Continue Reading Tesoro’s Acquisition of BP’s Carson Refinery (California Prices at the Pump: Part 2)
On August 6, a fire tore through Chevron’s Richmond refinery. The Richmond refinery is located in Northern California, a few miles outside of San Francisco, and is the third largest … Continue Reading California Prices at the Pump
Sometime later this week the owners of the Seaway pipeline will announce that they’ve completed the first stage of reversing the flow of oil on the line and have started … Continue Reading The Midwest Oil Glut Hasn’t Lowered Gas Prices; Ending the Glut Won’t Raise Them
Amidst all the political noise on speculation in oil futures markets, some serious researchers have written useful blogposts and op-eds pointing out the lack of evidence that speculation is a … Continue Reading Speculation is not the cause of high oil prices
I have a fantasy. I want a cool looking electric car, that gets 50+mpg and is not outrageously more expensive to buy and operate than a VW Golf when driven 12,000 miles … Continue Reading Marginal vs. Average Generation: The Case of the Electric Car
