A careful analysis of the costs and benefits of using MTBE as a fuel oxygenate, as compared to use of its most reasonable substitutes, finds that the net private and social costs of MTBE' s alternatives are substantially higher than those of MTBE. The expected costs of future MTBE use have been...

This paper provides an overview of the environmental, economical, and policy considerations related to biofuels. While the biofuel production and consumption exhibited significant increase over the first decade of the new millennium, this and further increases in biofuel production are driven...

This paper provides an overview of the environmental, economical, and policy considerations related to biofuels. While the biofuel production and consumption exhibited significant increase over the first decade of the new millennium, this and further increases in biofuel production are driven...