The U.S. natural gas industry traditionally had producers, interstate pipelines, and distributors linked together via bilateral, long-term contracts. Recently the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has encouraged buyers and sellers to deal directly with each other, leading first to a spot...

This survey of surveys contains an historical summary of what I knew about short- and long-run gasoline demand elasticities as of 2006. I discuss 13 surveys published from 1977-2004 along with a few additional studies. Although there is wide variation in price and income elasticities across the...

Today, a confluence of factors, such as growing concerns about associated consumption externalities and socioeconomic pressures, is building the momentum towards reducing fossil fuel consumption for road transport and rationalizing prices to reflect direct, indirect and externality costs. While...