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RAND Review: Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2011

Stories discuss gays in the military, police recruitment, home health care, breast cancer, health insurance exchanges, alternative fuels, refinery taxes, alcohol prices, outer space debris, mental illness, diplomatic trends, and health care costs.

Apr 29, 2011
Report

Should Power Plants Consider Using Biomass Energy as an Alternative to Fossil Fuels?

U.S. power plants seek to diversify their fuel sources and biomass energy is a renewable resource that generally has lower life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuels. This model estimates the cost and availability of biomass energy resources from U.S. agricultural lands from the perspective of an individual power plant.

Mar 29, 2011
News Release

Replacing Gas Tax with Crude Oil Tax Could Fund Nation's Transportation Needs

The federal government could fully fund its surface transportation infrastructure needs by levying a percentage tax on crude oil and imported refined petroleum products.

Feb 23, 2011
Report

How Much Are People Willing to Pay to Reduce Carbon Emissions?

To combat climate change, the British government has thus far valued the cost of carbon emissions based on how much people should pay, rather than how much they are willing to pay, or the value they place on carbon emissions reduction. An analysis of a series of RAND Europe studies suggests there is an opportunity for a large consumer surplus — a social benefit — by introducing a carbon tax to pay for the damages caused by carbon emissions.

Feb 23, 2011
Report

Replacing Gas Tax with Crude Oil Tax Could Fund Nation's Transportation Needs

The federal government could fully fund its surface transportation infrastructure needs by levying a percentage tax on crude oil and imported refined petroleum products.

Feb 22, 2011
Report

System Trials to Demonstrate Mileage-Based Road Use Charges

Explore options for conducting a set of trials to test the feasibility of transitioning from fuel excise taxes to a system of road use charges based on vehicle miles of travel.

Feb 11, 2011
Report

No Direct Military Benefit from Use of Alternative Fuels by Armed Forces

If the U.S. military increases its use of alternative fuels, there will be no direct benefit to the nation's armed forces. It makes more sense for the military to direct its efforts toward using energy more efficiently.

Jan 25, 2011
Journal Article

The Economic Costs of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under a U.S. National Renewable Electricity Mandate

The authors perform a technical and economic assessment and estimate the economic costs and net GHG reductions from U.S renewable electricity mandates. GHG emissions reductions from such policies could be as much as 670 million metric tons per year. Depending on technological development, economic costs are $13-$45 billion per year. Lower costs depend on favorable technological progress.

Jan 1, 2011
Commentary

Among Potential Deficit Remedies, Don't Rule Out Raising Gas Tax

A proposed 15-cents-a-gallon gas tax is worth a second look. Among various painful options put forward in the Deficit Reduction Commission's draft report, this tax hike may be well justified, writes Martin Wachs.

Dec 25, 2010
News Release

Attention to Societal Priorities Can Help Guide Nuclear Waste Management Policy

To break the impasse over how to deal with spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants, policymakers should focus on how various waste management strategies address societal priorities related to nuclear energy.

Nov 15, 2010
Testimony

Policy Implications of Alternative Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Strategies

Testimony presented before the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future on November 15, 2010.

Nov 8, 2010
Report

Attention to Societal Priorities Can Help Guide Nuclear Waste Management Policy

To break the impasse over how to deal with spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants policymakers should focus on how various waste management strategies address societal priorities related to nuclear energy.

Nov 5, 2010
Journal Article

Informed Public Preferences for Electricity Portfolios with CCS and Other Low-Carbon Technologies

Public perceptions of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and other low-carbon electricity-generating technologies may affect the feasibility of their widespread deployment.

Sep 1, 2010
Dissertation

An Analysis of Strategic Price Setting in Retail Gasoline Markets

Studies price-setting behavior in the retail gasoline industry.

Aug 27, 2010
Periodical

RAND Review: Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2010

Features discuss energy strategies for Israel, the economic recession, and Iran's leadership; other items discuss the KC-10 fleet, air pollution and hospital costs, no-fault insurance, silica litigation, poverty reduction, and political polarization.

Apr 9, 2010
Multimedia

Green Buildings, Green Jobs

In this podcast, Ambassador Charles Ries describes how Europe and Australia have used innovative policies to provide information on energy consumption by buildings to promote energy efficiency and discuss lessons the U.S. can learn from these efforts. Ries also discusses the effects of these policies on jobs in the building industry.

Feb 17, 2010
Journal Article

Documentation for the Calculating Uncertainty in Biomass Emissions Model, Version 1.0 (CUBE 1.0): Contents and Use

This report is intended to complement extensive documentation contained in the model itself. CUBE 1.0, available for download on the NETL website, determines the life cycle GHG emissions of biomass feedstocks from planting the biomass to delivery to the bioenergy plant gate ("farm-to-gate").

Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article

Life Cycle Assessment and Grid Electricity: What Do We Know and What Can We Know?

The authors explore the limits of current knowledge about grid electricity in LCA and carbon footprinting for the U.S. electrical grid, and show that differences in standards, protocols, and reporting organizations can lead to important differences in estimates of CO2, SO2, and NOx emissions factors.

Jan 1, 2010
Research Brief

Natural Gas and Israel's Energy Future: Planning Amid Deep Uncertainty

Israel must control future electricity demand. It can build a secure energy infrastructure in which natural gas provides up to 40 percent of electric power generation but only by taking measures to limit supply disruptions.

Dec 22, 2009
Report

Natural Gas and Israel's Energy Future

Israel can make natural gas usage a bigger part of its energy portfolio without jeopardizing its security, but even more importantly, the nation needs to make conservation measures a priority in its future energy plans.

Dec 15, 2009

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