Balancing air, water, and land environmental goals can prevent use of harmful substances like methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) in gasoline. This article offers an economic analysis of fuel choices using data from California. The full costs of various fuel blends are measured accounting for all...

"This article is concerned with the economics of excessively large and socially costly suburban expansion and attempts to summarize and organize the main economic arguments associated with sprawl due to single-family residential home construction. We also apply standard welfare economics and...