Mitigating volatile U.S. Gasoline prices and internalizing external costs: A win-win fuel portfolio

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1218-1225

  Zhang, Zibin ^a   Lohr, Luanne ^a   Escalante, Cesar L ^a   Wetzstein, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHANOL; FUEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PETROLEUM; PRICE DYNAMICS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56049098532     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2008.01207.x     Document Type: Article

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