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 for middle or high … income. It uses data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to reassess the claim that gasoline taxes are regressive by …

Analyses of policies to reduce gasoline consumption have focused on two effects, a compositional effect on the fuel … micro-level data are consistent with this hypothesis. We find a $1 gas tax would reduce US gas consumption by 1.5% through …

Traditional least squares estimates of the responsiveness of gasoline consumption to changes in gasoline prices are … biased toward zero, given the endogeneity of gasoline prices. A seemingly natural solution to this problem is to instrument … for gasoline prices using gasoline taxes, but this approach tends to yield implausibly large price elasticities. We …

, buy a smaller car with better gas mileage, use cleaner gasoline, and repair pollution control equipment (PCE). However … efficiency can again be obtained, but only if each person's gasoline tax rate can be made to depend on the characteristics of the … characterize second-best tax rates on gasoline and on characteristics …

distributional effects of a gasoline tax increase using three welfare measures and under three scenarios for gas tax revenue use. To … gasoline, other goods, and leisure. We find that the gas tax is regressive, but that returning the revenue through a lump …

of automotive fuel consumption in the United States: taxing gas would be less regressive than regulating the fuel economy …

calculate elasticities and to simulate the effects of alternative pollution control policies such as taxes on gasoline, on … taxes on cars or to taxes on gas or distance. Thus emissions are more affected by taxes on gasoline than by taxes on …

consequences of the gasoline tax, bus and light rail charges and a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. Gas taxes have become more … the gasoline tax with a household-level VMT tax would increase the average tax burden on households in the top income and …

examines the main channels through which reductions in U.S. oil consumption might take place: (a) increased fuel economy of … engine, and (d) reduced vehicles miles travelled. I then discuss how the policies for reducing petroleum consumption used in … consumption would have the largest impact on economic efficiency …