Refiners’ Loss Roils Politics of Oil’s Push to End Export Ban

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Sept. 3, 2015

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“They are going to lose the bonus they’ve enjoyed,” said Charles Mason, a professor of petroleum resources at the University of Wyoming. “There is a discount on producers U.S. tight oil. If we would shelve the export ban, that discount would disappear.”

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Fossil Fuels

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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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