All Posts Tagged With: "oil refineries"
Whom Should We Thank for High Gas Prices?
I am writing this after having just filled my tank with gasoline at $3.99 per gallon. Oil is over $125 a barrel. Big Oil and their CEOs are the hands-down favorite to win the Snidely Whiplash People’s Choice Award. Since Big Oil is our favorite villain, no one really wants to hear about the other [...]
1Jul2008 | Michael Heberling | 2 comments | ContinuedThe High Cost of Misunderstanding Gasoline Economics
National emergencies, wars, natural disasters—all these things tend to bring about expanded government power.1 Hurricane Katrina was no exception. In addition to promising to spend billions of dollars of other people’s money allegedly to “rebuild” New Orleans and other stricken areas, politicians have been equally generous with other people’s gasoline supplies. In many states, anyone [...]
1Apr2006 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 0 comments | ContinuedGasoline Prices: Why So High Last Spring?
Ben Lieberman is senior policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Gasoline prices rose an average of 31 cents per gallon between late March and May of this year, with consumers in some parts of California and the upper midwest paying more than two dollars well into June. As with other recent [...]
1Oct2001 | Ben Lieberman | 1 comment | Continued-
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