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API Research Paper #071, October, 1993, “Petroleum Product Taxes in
The OECD Countries"

For instance, in the U.S. in 1991, gasoline taxes averaged $15.74 /bbl and highway diesel taxes $16.21/bbl. In contrast, taxes for non-highway products averaged only 0.09/bbl. Similarly in Europe and Japan, highway fuel taxes in 1991 ranged from 22-95 $/barrel whereas non-highway fuel taxes averaged 6.65 $/barrel in Europe and only 19 cents /barrel in Japan.

Tables T3, T4, T5 contain projected delivered prices for 2010 for these three OECD regions. The U.S. prices were taken directly from the 1996 Annual Energy Outlook. The delivered prices for Europe and Japan were built up from open market prices taken from the EnSys WORLD model base case for 2010 (which used the world crude oil price from AEO 1996) plus 1991 taxes and estimated marketing and distribution cost.

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Scenario 1 "Add Factors" for Industrial Energy Prices($1994 per unit)

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Table T2

Scenario 2 "Add Factors" for Industrial Energy Prices ($1994 per unit)

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Table T3

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Analysis of Petroleum Product Prices and Fuel Price Add Factors

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As can be seen, projected U.S. prices range for light products in 2010 from $262/ton for heating oil to nearly 500 $/ton for gasoline with residual fuel somewhat lower at an average of $145/ton. In Europe and Japan the price ranges are more marked up to $1170/ton and $765/ton respectively for gasoline. The final step in tables T3, T4, T5 applies the scenario add factors to these projected 2010 delivered prices and then illustrates the percentage increase over the base 2010 prices that the Scenario I add factors would represent. These percentage increases are in turn summarized in Table T6. Corresponding Scenario 2 add factor effects are summarized in Table T7.

What is significant about these percentage increases is that they are highly variable both from product to product and from region to region. In general, the percentage increases are lower for the lighter refined products and heaviest for residual fuel oil with an overall range from 7% increase for motor gasoline in Europe to 91-108% increases for residual fuel in the U.S. and Japan. In general, the percentage increases for highway fuels, i.e. motor gasoline and diesel fuel are among the lowest because they already bear the highest tax burdens.

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EnSys Energy & Systems, Inc. One implication of this wide variability in percentage increase is that there could be an associated wide variability in product demand impacts. In other words, the impact among different products and different regions would not be uniform. Resulting refined product demand patterns could be appreciably altered, requiring shifts in refinery processing configurations in order to accommodate these changes. A more detailed examination and simulation of the effects of these price increases tied to price elasticities of demand is warranted and could be undertaken using WORLD modeling. Scenario 2 add factors produce U.S. price increases of two-thirds those applying under Scenario 1. Increases in Europe are unchanged and those in Japan modestly lower.

Table T4

Analysis of Petroleum Product Prices and Fuel Price Add Factors

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1. Natural gas price in $/mmbtu is $3.40. Gas and electricity prices from IEA Energy Prices & Taxes, 3rd qtr 1995.

2. Tax Components from API Research Study 071 "Petroleum Product Taxes in the OECD Countries"

3. Estimated delivered prices based on tax cpt + 2010 market price from WORLD base case + estimated distribution cost.

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Table T5

Analysis of Petroleum Product Prices and Fuel Price Add Factors

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1. Natural gas price in $/mmbtu is $10.40. Gas and electricity prices from IEA Energy Prices & Taxes 3rd Qtr. 1995.

2. Tax Components from API Research Study 071 "Petroleum Product Taxes in the OECD Countries" 3. Estimated delivered prices based on tax cpt + 2010 market price from WORLD base case + estimated distribution cost.

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