Prof. Werner Antweiler, Ph.D.

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Blog Entries: June 2019 or earlier

Marine plastic debris and the ban of single-use plastics (22 Jun 19)
Triangular Distribution Estimation (5 Jun 19)
Will Saharan solar power come to Europe at last? (30 May 19)
Fuel Efficiency and Your Driving Style (27 May 19)
Refining margins in BC and across Canada (1 May 19)
Bivariate Normal Random Numbers (3 Mar 19)
Euromyths and the Brexit train wreck (7 Feb 19)
Should Canada abolish its $100 banknotes? (1 Feb 19)
The strong case for extending SkyTrain to UBC (22 Jan 19)
Drone Control Policy (20 Jan 19)
Coal on the retreat is good news for climate change (8 Jan 19)
Bitcoins gobble up too much electricity (7 Dec 18)
BC needs a “right to charge” (27 Nov 18)
Electric vehicles will soon run on solid state batteries (24 Nov 18)
A sigmoid-logit probability function for the (0,1) domain (3 Nov 18)
The federal carbon pricing backstop becomes a carbon dividend (23 Oct 18)
Tax Pass-Through for Beginners (29 Sep 18)
State of the NAFTA negotiations: Canada standing firm while remaining flexible (3 Sep 18)
Trump administration: Make America Guzzle Gas Again (18 Aug 18)
The economics of when to leave for work, and important implications for congestion pricing (2 Aug 18)
Negative electricity prices (28 Jul 18)
Journalism with an academic flavour (18 Jul 18)
How regressive are fuel taxes in Canada? (15 Jul 18)
The virtues of negative exponential demand (30 Jun 18)
U.S. neomercantilism (25 Jun 18)
Progressive Property Taxation in Vancouver (28 May 18)
The Canadian Petrodollar - An Update (10 May 18)
"Speed on green" cameras help reduce traffic accidents (7 Mar 18)
Does LNG still have a future in BC? (31 Jan 18)
Structural decomposition analysis (8 Jan 18)
Free speech and civility in public discourse (1 Jan 18)
The Bitcoin bubble will burst—distributed ledger technology will survive (20 Dec 17)
What happened to the pass-through from crude oil to gasoline prices in Vancouver? (11 Nov 17)
Canada's changing electricity generation landscape (13 Oct 17)
Homicides across countries: a sad case of U.S. exceptionalism (4 Oct 17)
Growing our cross-border electricity infrastructure (1 Oct 17)
Are electric vehicles always cleaner? (4 Sep 17)
How to fix car insurance in British Columbia (25 Aug 17)
Reduce the alcohol limit for driving, and boost enforcement (15 Aug 17)
Volvo goes electric—will other carmakers follow? (15 Jul 17)
Welfare functions and inequality (30 Jun 17)
What does voter participation tell us about the outcome of the British Columbia 2017 provincial election? (11 May 17)
How does mobility pricing work? (22 Apr 17)
How ethical are introductory offers? (11 Apr 17)
The European Union turns 60 (29 Mar 17)
Say goodbye to plastic shopping bags (18 Mar 17)
Public Transit and Road Pricing (25 Feb 17)
Haphazard road tolling (11 Feb 17)
Will streaming television transform the TV advertising industry? (31 Jan 17)
Traffic congestion in Canada (28 Jan 17)
Canada's dangerous mountain of household debt (1 Jan 17)
How can climate policy succeed without US leadership? (20 Dec 16)
Growing income inequality and its political consequences (9 Nov 16)
In support of Washington State's Initiative 732 (6 Nov 16)
No ban of the internal combustion engine in Germany by 2030 (4 Nov 16)
Will methane cracking give natural gas an extended lease on life? (30 Oct 16)
Trouble looming for Quebec's emission permit system (19 Oct 16)
The case for all-inclusive prices (18 Sep 16)
Bayer acquires Monsanto: good parenting required (16 Sep 16)
The extensive margin of pollution abatement (15 Sep 16)
Speed enforcement through section control (16 Aug 16)
Driving with stop-start systems in Europe (8 Aug 16)
How are alternative fuel vehicles catching on in Europe? (16 Jul 16)
Brexit and the illusion of independence (5 Jul 16)
Walmart vs. VISA: the trouble with credit card fees in Canada (2 Jul 16)
How to design carbon pricing for energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries (17 Jun 16)
Does the US-Canada bond yield difference really predict the exchange rate? (10 Jun 16)
Electricity conservation tariffs: how do they work? (22 May 16)
Carbon emissions per capita ranking (1 May 16)
Landmark legal ruling on internal trade in Canada (29 Apr 16)
The Dorfman-Steiner Theorem and increasing returns to scale (31 Mar 16)
More evidence about the perils of Daylight Saving Time (30 Mar 16)
Triangular Dissimiliarity Diagrams and Triangular Gradient Shading in PostScript (23 Mar 16)
Should Canada abolish Daylight Saving Time? (13 Mar 16)
More power to the Lower Mainland (5 Mar 16)
Interaction effects in regression analysis (1 Mar 16)
Canadian Petrodollar Update (22 Feb 16)
Canadian banks should embrace electronic funds transfer (2 Feb 16)
Vancouver House Price Dynamics (23 Jan 16)
Canadian Dollar Extremes (16 Jan 16)
How to use a Roundabout (1 Jan 16)
The economics of altruism (24 Dec 15)
Reforming jury duty in Canada (17 Dec 15)
Electoral reform in Canada after the October 2015 elections (27 Nov 15)
Carbon dioxide taken out of thin air (13 Nov 15)
Electricity Economics and Demand Side Management (7 Nov 15)
Electoral participation in Canada (2 Nov 15)
Fictitious econometric precision (31 Oct 15)
About good debt, bad debt, and debt breaks (10 Oct 15)
The high price of Canada's segmented oil markets (3 Oct 15)
Area calculations with longitude and latitude (30 Sep 15)
Energy Economics with Zero Marginal Costs (19 Sep 15)
Seawater desalination: technology to quench the world's growing thirst for water (1 Sep 15)
Are you paying too much at the pump in Vancouver? (25 Aug 15)
The Panama Canal turns 101—and expands (15 Aug 15)
Will TPP liberate Canadian Dairy Markets? (8 Aug 15)
Canada's improvident water consumption (4 Aug 15)
Electoral entropy: the case for electoral reform continued (31 Jul 15)
Let our Canadian expats vote! (30 Jul 15)
The case for electoral reform in Canada (27 Jul 15)
Drought and water conservation in Vancouver (21 Jul 15)
How to rescue Greece (12 Jul 15)
Are Canada's carbon emission reduction targets realistic? (5 Jul 15)
Fun with indicator variables (26 Jun 15)
Is BC's carbon tax salient? (15 Jun 15)
Fossil fuels and declining oxygen in our atmosphere (1 Jun 15)
Ontario joins Quebec and California in carbon trading (18 May 15)
Are prices at the pump determined by Brent or West Texas? (8 May 15)
car2go is popular at UBC (5 May 15)
The Alberta Disadvantage (1 May 15)
Do gasoline prices rise like rockets and fall like feathers? (22 Apr 15)
How do crude oil prices affect prices at the pump in Vancouver? (11 Apr 15)
The Canadian Petrodollar (1 Apr 15)
Metro Vancouver needs more public transit (16 Mar 15)
Fixing the U.S. Budget (1 Mar 15)
Coal mining and selenium (7 Feb 15)
Automotive innovation (3 Feb 15)
Fossil-fuel divestment at UBC: feat or folly? (1 Feb 15)
Geothermal energy from hot sedimentary aquifers (15 Jan 15)
Driver fatigue detection (6 Jan 15)
Canada's incomplete metrication (1 Jan 15)
Fermat-Torricelli problem redux (24 Dec 14)
Alphabetical ballot order in Vancouver politics (19 Dec 14)
Site C Dam goes ahead (17 Dec 14)
Nuclear innovation or nuclear stagnation? (14 Dec 14)
Nuclear environmentalism? (12 Dec 14)
My SVG exam clock (10 Dec 14)
Income splitting in Canada (6 Dec 14)
Liquefied natural gas: resources and upstream issues (21 Nov 14)
Liquefied natural gas: technology choices and emissions (11 Nov 14)
Liquefied natural gas: transportation (5 Nov 14)
Smart water metering (2 Nov 14)
Liquefied natural gas: exporters and importers (30 Oct 14)
Liquefied natural gas: markets and prices (26 Oct 14)
UBC is letting off steam (22 Oct 14)
Clean energy and the Site C Dam (16 Oct 14)
Decomposing R-squared (10 Oct 14)
Grid-scale electricity storage with hydrogen (7 Oct 14)
Can flow batteries solve the electricity storage problem? (28 Sep 14)
The Space Cost Race (21 Sep 14)
Will Apple revolutionize payment systems? (10 Sep 14)
The trouble with tailings ponds (2 Sep 14)
Has a B.C. company found the key to economical carbon capture? (20 Aug 14)
Discouraging marijuana use (19 Aug 14)
Lessons from the Mount Polley mine tailings spill (8 Aug 14)
Internal trade barriers continue to stifle commerce in Canada (6 Aug 14)
Getting Energy Prices Right (31 Jul 14)
Germany rejects CETA—for now (28 Jul 14)
New York Times endorses marijuana legalization (27 Jul 14)
Farewell to Australia's carbon tax (24 Jul 14)
Why liberalize marijuana? (4 Jul 14)
Why blog? (1 Jul 14)
How big is the cross-border marijuana trade? (25 Jun 14)
Electric Common Sense (7 Jun 14)
Our automotive future? (6 Jun 14)
The Fiction of Internet Security (19 Apr 14)
Bitcoin Volatility (21 Jan 14)
What's next for Northern Gateway? (18 Jan 14)
Northern Gateway approved (19 Dec 13)
Welcome to CETA! (12 Dec 13)
Beware of Bitcoins (23 Nov 11)

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Recent Blog Entries

B.C. needs new ferries on budget and on time (October 1)
Germany's zig-zag course of electric vehicle adoption (September 26)
Canada's Zero-Emission Vehicle mandate needs reform, not rescission or derision (August 27)
Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola should prompt development of a larger domestic biofuels market (August 14)
How is Canada's automobile trade with the United States shaping up with US tariffs and Canadian counter-tariffs? (August 8)
Canada Post is in a death spiral (May 21)
The transportation emission equation (May 10)
Canada's notwithstanding clause is ripe for misuse (April 21)
China could come out ahead in a trade war with Trump's America (April 17)
Canada's Electricity Trade with the United States (March 15)
Value-added taxes are not tariffs (March 4)
A closer look at Germany's 2025 federal election (March 2)

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