The Wall Street Journal had a good article and leters about gas prices this week.
Cyril Morong
April 6, 2004
Commentary (U.S.)
Gas Panic
By JERRY TAYLOR and PETER VAN DOREN
The hysteria is building. Newspapers and television news broadcasts scream that gasoline prices today are higher than
I forgot a couple of the letters
April 8, 2004 Letters No Need to Sing Those Gas-Guzzlin' Blues
The excellent April 6 editorial-page piece "Gas Panic" by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren pointed out that real gasoline prices are not as high as the hysterics would have
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Bryan Caplan wrote:
Where would the supply-side effect
come from?
Just because the world supply is fixed, does not mean that one country
can't reduce after-tax prices by cutting taxes. Inelastically supplied
to the world, elastically supplied to individual
Fred Foldvary wrote:
From: "Thomas TerBush" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The government here in Japan has a sly "solution" to this
problem. Here the government maintains a stable gas price
target by fluctuating the tax.
As the price of oil changes, the government adju
Supposedly Britons are already cueing for gas. What's happened? Price
controls? Expected price controls?
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Prof. Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan
"We may be dissatisfied with television for two
No, its more confusing than that.
The government has raised taxes on fuel, this was sly when the oil price
was falling, but now with oil above $30 a barrel, gas here costs 80p
($1.20) a litre. The British are copying the French, who have a long
tradition of protesting when they disagree
Is the gas tax in Britain a per liter tax or a percentage of the price tax?
Cyril Morong
Department of Economics
San Antonio College
The government here in Japan has a sly "solution" to this problem. Here
the government maintains a stable gas price target by fluctuating the tax.
As the price of oil changes, the government adjusts the tax to keep prices
around US$4.50 a gallon. Since there's no price change, no one
