Retail Petroleum Divorcement: The Cost to the Consumer


 

Publication Date: June 1980

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Milton R. Copulos

Research Area: Energy

Keywords: Energy and environment

Type: Report

Abstract:

There is a certain irony in the fact that divorcement legislation has customarily been presented as consumerist in its orientation. The evidence on divorcement would indicate that it is actually quite the opposite. A brief overview of some of its effects clearly demonstrates how this can be the case.