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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.112098
	U.S. public support for biofuels tax credits: Cost frames, local fuel prices, and the moderating influence of partisanship
	Goldfarb J.L.; Kriner D.L.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	03014215
卷号	149
英文摘要	Researchers debate the viability of biofuels to address growing global energy demands and climate change. Understanding factors that maintain and build public support for government policies bolstering biofuels is critical. Using a nationally representative survey experiment, we examine the influence of competing cost arguments and spatial variation in ZIP-code level gasoline prices on Americans' support for federal tax credits to promote biofuels. We examine the influence of competing arguments about the cost implications of biofuels for consumers on support for federal tax credits, and whether such treatment effects are moderated by respondents’ political partisanship and by variation in local fuel prices. Consistent with research on loss aversion, arguments that biofuels could increase costs for consumers were more influential than arguments touting economic benefits. However, arguments that biofuels could eventually decrease fuel costs for consumers were more influential among subjects who experienced high local gasoline prices. Finally, we found evidence of a significant partisan divide in policy preferences, and evidence that partisanship moderates the influence both of competing cost frames and of local fuel prices on support for federal biofuels tax credits. Our results add important nuance to understanding of how economic calculations affect public support for policies to support biofuels. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Biofuel Consumer cost Gas prices Policy preferences Public opinion Tax credit
英文关键词	Biofuels; Climate change; Economic and social effects; Gasoline; Taxation; Economic benefits; Federal tax credit; Gasoline prices; Global energy demand; Loss aversion; Public support; Spatial variations; Treatment effects; Costs; biofuel; consumption behavior; cost analysis; energy market; energy policy; price dynamics; public sector; tax reform
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205111
作者单位	Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, United States; Department of Government, Cornell University, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Goldfarb J.L.,Kriner D.L.. U.S. public support for biofuels tax credits: Cost frames, local fuel prices, and the moderating influence of partisanship[J],2021,149.
APA	Goldfarb J.L.,&Kriner D.L..(2021).U.S. public support for biofuels tax credits: Cost frames, local fuel prices, and the moderating influence of partisanship.Energy Policy,149.
MLA	Goldfarb J.L.,et al."U.S. public support for biofuels tax credits: Cost frames, local fuel prices, and the moderating influence of partisanship".Energy Policy 149(2021).