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    • Comparing the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on global warming 

      Eckaus, Richard S. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1990)
      Policies dealing with global warming require a measure of the effects of the emissions of greenhouse gases that create different magnitudes of instantaneous radiative forcing and have different lifetimes. The Global Warming ...

    • Is the gasoline tax regressive? 

      Poterba, James M. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1990)
      Claims of the regressivity of gasoline taxes typically rely on annual surveys of consumer income and expenditures which show that gasoline expenditures are a larger fraction of income for very low income households than ...

    • User cost in oil production 

      Adelman, Morris Albert; DeSilva, Harindar; Koehn, Michael F. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1990)
      The assumption of an initial fixed mineral stock is superfluous and wrong. User cost (resource rent) in mineral production is the present value of expected increases in development cost. It can be measured as the difference ...