Experts: Lifting Crude Oil Ban Means Lower Gas Prices

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Dec. 21, 2015

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Media Highlight

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Wyoming Business Report

"As both houses of Congress have passed a budget bill that lifts the 40-year ban on crude exports set in reaction to the oil embargo of the 1970s, Mason and other experts analyzed the effects this would have on gasoline prices in a report published by Resources for the Future (RFF)."

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Charles Mason

University Fellow

Charles Mason is a university fellow at RFF. He is an internationally known scholar who specializes in Environmental and Resource Economics

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