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Determinants Of Gasoline Price: Can Consumer Spending Make A Difference?, Jonathan Stachelek
Determinants Of Gasoline Price: Can Consumer Spending Make A Difference?, Jonathan Stachelek
Empirical Economic Bulletin, An Undergraduate Journal
This paper investigates the determinants to gasoline prices in the United States. The regression contains five different independent variables: the price of imported oil per barrel, the number of barrels of oil imported to the United States, the number of barrels of oil produced domestically in United States, the commodity price of oil, the number of automobiles purchased monthly in the United States, and the dependent variable, Gasoline Price. By using these variables in a linear regression model, the results show that the price of gasoline is primarily driven by the price of imported crude oil, followed shortly thereafter by …