全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Crude Behavior: How Lifting the Export Ban Reduces Gasoline Prices in the United States

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来源类型	Issue Brief
规范类型	简报
	Crude Behavior: How Lifting the Export Ban Reduces Gasoline Prices in the United States
	Stephen P.A. Brown; Charles Mason; Alan J. Krupnick; Jan Mares
发表日期	2014-03-05
出版年	2014
页码	Issue Brief 14-03-REV
语种	英语
结论	The "fracking" revolution has led to an excess supply of light crude oil in the United States, particularly in the Midwest. These excess supplies of light crude oil, combined with a US ban on exporting crude oil and transport bottlenecks, have led to sharply reduced crude oil prices in the Midwest. These lower crude oil prices in the Midwest do not seem to have resulted in lower prices for refined products in the Midwest. US refineries are better suited to process heavy crude oil, while refineries in other countries are better suited to process light crude oil. As a result, lifting the ban on US crude oil exports would allow for a more efficient distribution of crude oil among refineries in the Western Hemisphere and elsewhere in the world. A better allocation of refinery activity will result in more gasoline production, which will lower gasoline prices.
主题	Energy and Electricity ; Environmental Economics Topics ; International ; Transportation
子主题	Oil
URL	http://www.rff.org/research/publications/crude-behavior-how-lifting-export-ban-reduces-gasoline-prices-united-states
来源智库	Resources for the Future (United States)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/39705
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Stephen P.A. Brown,Charles Mason,Alan J. Krupnick,et al. Crude Behavior: How Lifting the Export Ban Reduces Gasoline Prices in the United States. 2014.