Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  Franz Wirl
Title:  Do Volatile Oil Prices and Consumer Adjustment Costs Justify An Additional Petroleum Tax?
Classification-JEL: F0
Pages:  147-150
Volume:  Volume 11
Issue:  Number 1
Year:  1990
Abstract:  A number of papers have considered different reasons for defending or refuting additional crude oil taxation directly or indirectly via an import duty. Hogan-Rahmani (1987) refer to "national security of supply" in advocating an oil import fee. This relates to another work of the authors (see Hogan-Rahmani-Jorgenson-Cooper (1988)), in which they state that energy demand (and in particular U.S. oil dependence) will dramatically rise due to prevailing low crude oil prices. An extensive discussion of this controversial issue has gone on in this journal, e.g., see Wright (1988), Singer (1988), Huntington (1988) reviewing the DOE report on Energy Security and the "American Debate" by Curlee, Tussing and Vactor (1988), Nesbitt and Choi (1988), and the defense of Broadman and Hogan (1988). Bizer and Stuart (1987) address a different aspect of an oil import fee, namely as an instrument of public finance. However, they dismiss import duties as an inefficient instrument for raising revenues.
Handle: RePEc:aen:journl:1990v11-01-a12
File-URL: http://www.iaee.org/en/publications/ejarticle.aspx?id=1997
File-Format: text/html
File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to IAEE members and subscribers.