North American gasoline taxes are much lower than in all other OECD countries. The author argues that Canada should substantially increase its gasoline taxes to achieve environmental tax policy objectives. The article outlines the economic efficiency, fairness, and transformational rationales...

This paper analyzes how gasoline tax rates are related to the time workers in the United States spend commuting by private car, public transport, or with other physical modes of transport. Our identification strategy relies on both between-state differences and time variations in gasoline taxes....

The relationship between ethanol, corn and oil prices are analyzed under two alternative situations, depending on whether or not consumers purchase ethanol on the basis of its contribution to mileage. In all cases, market prices of ethanol can be above or below the consumer price paid for...