Prof. Werner Antweiler, Ph.D.
Werner's Blog — Opinion, Analysis, Commentary
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- Canada's alcohol imports have shifted (27 Nov 2025)
- B.C. needs new ferries on budget and on time (1 Oct 2025)
- Germany's zig-zag course of electric vehicle adoption (26 Sep 2025)
- Canada's Zero-Emission Vehicle mandate needs reform, not rescission or derision (27 Aug 2025)
- Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola should prompt development of a larger domestic biofuels market (14 Aug 2025)
- How is Canada's automobile trade with the United States shaping up with US tariffs and Canadian counter-tariffs? (8 Aug 2025)
- Canada Post is in a death spiral (21 May 2025)
- The transportation emission equation (10 May 2025)
- Canada's notwithstanding clause is ripe for misuse (21 Apr 2025)
- China could come out ahead in a trade war with Trump's America (17 Apr 2025)
- Canada's Electricity Trade with the United States (15 Mar 2025)
- Value-added taxes are not tariffs (4 Mar 2025)
- A closer look at Germany's 2025 federal election (2 Mar 2025)
- Trade deficits are not subsidies (27 Feb 2025)
- Electric vehicle adoption in Germany (19 Feb 2025)
- Export surcharges as effective retaliation in a trade war (20 Jan 2025)
- How is the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline being utilized? (31 Dec 2024)
- How BC Hydro incentivizes independent power producers (16 Dec 2024)
- British Columbia gets more power (9 Dec 2024)
- Coffee is getting more expensive (28 Nov 2024)
- The economics of a biofuel mandate (10 Oct 2024)
- What would the end of consumer-side carbon pricing mean for climate action in Canada? (16 Sep 2024)
- Projecting Urban Electric Vehicle Adoption in British Columbia (27 Aug 2024)
- Where are British Columbia's passenger cars made? And is that picture different for electric vehicles? (15 Aug 2024)
- Closing Translink's Funding Gap (27 Jul 2024)
- Canada's Defence Spending Gap (23 Jul 2024)
- What will another year of drought conditions mean for electricity supply in BC? (18 May 2024)
- What is the optimal fuel tax level? (17 May 2024)
- British Columbia's evolving electricity trade with the United States (12 May 2024)
- Will BC need to transition fuel taxes to VKT taxes? (30 Apr 2024)
- The Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) will make gasoline more expensive in Vancouver (25 Apr 2024)
- Will tariffs on critical mineral imports help or hinder the energy transition? (10 Mar 2024)
- The social cost of bitcoin mining in BC (8 Feb 2024)
- BC Hydro's new peak load (22 Jan 2024)
- BC has become a net electricity importer in 2023 (21 Dec 2023)
- Taking stock of Canada's GHG Emissions at the start of COP28 (30 Nov 2023)
- EV adoption rates across Canada (25 Nov 2023)
- Why have food prices risen so much? (21 Oct 2023)
- EV adoption around the world and BC's evolving ZEV laws (13 Oct 2023)
- BC has made it easier for stratas to install EV chargers (8 Oct 2023)
- The Americanization of Canadian milk (2 Oct 2023)
- Canada suffers second adverse trade ruling over dairy imports (30 Sep 2023)
- Could sodium-ion batteries make grid-scale electricity storage more economical? (23 Sep 2023)
- The population density deficit of Canadian cities (15 Sep 2023)
- Controversies about Germany's Building Energy Law (9 Sep 2023)
- How are sanctions against Russia's crude oil trade developing? (13 Jun 2023)
- Optional Time-of-Use electricity tariffs are coming to B.C. (30 May 2023)
- The US debt ceiling trap (21 May 2023)
- BC's electricity load reached a new peak during 2022 (7 Jan 2023)
- Space debris is becoming a costly safety hazard (20 Dec 2022)
- Is Quebec becoming a climate action laggard? (12 Dec 2022)
- Vancouver housing prices are easing — but affordability remains elusive (20 Nov 2022)
- Is the Canadian Dollar still a petrocurrency? (28 Oct 2022)
- When are Plug-In Hybrid-Electric Vehicles (PHEV) a good choice? (15 Aug 2022)
- Lessons from Germany's transition towards renewable energy (10 Aug 2022)
- The commercialization potential of turquoise hydrogen (7 Jul 2022)
- The mystery of the diesel premium (20 May 2022)
- Bitcoin is a cryptoasset and not a currency (13 May 2022)
- Fuel tax cuts are popular but badly misguided (11 May 2022)
- Reglobalization, not deglobalization (21 Apr 2022)
- What does strong backwardation tell us about where crude oil prices are headed? (9 Mar 2022)
- Germany turns to LNG imports (1 Mar 2022)
- NO TO WAR (25 Feb 2022)
- How deep is is Canada's trade relationship with Russia? (24 Feb 2022)
- Protecting critical infrastructure (17 Feb 2022)
- Two-sided market power in a vertical market (7 Feb 2022)
- Is inflation back to stay? (20 Jan 2022)
- Generalized Linear Demand (31 Dec 2021)
- The uncertain future of Nord Stream 2 (28 Dec 2021)
- Where in the United States is driving an electric vehicle environmentally beneficial? (21 Nov 2021)
- The state of renewable energy adoption around the world (5 Nov 2021)
- How to slim down Germany's parliament (31 Oct 2021)
- Electricity generation country profiles (21 Oct 2021)
- Canada's 2021 federal election in graphs (17 Oct 2021)
- Germany's new political landscape in maps (2 Oct 2021)
- Canada deserves a 21st-century electoral system (24 Sep 2021)
- Political swing votes are not uniform (13 Sep 2021)
- Where Canada's federal election is competitive (8 Sep 2021)
- The state of public EV charging in British Columbia (16 Aug 2021)
- Passenger cars in BC are getting heavier (25 Jul 2021)
- Are EVs already cheaper than gas-powered cars? (21 Jul 2021)
- The economic vulnerability of bitcoin mining (18 Jun 2021)
- Will green aviation be powered by hydrogen? (20 May 2021)
- The state of EV adoption in British Columbia (21 Apr 2021)
- The GHG footprint of Alberta's oil sands is growing alarmingly (11 Apr 2021)
- Vaccinating BC's population pyramid (9 Apr 2021)
- How much is climate change making Vancouver warmer, and does our electricity grid need to become more resilient to adapt? (18 Feb 2021)
- The ‘Tesla syndrome’: when exactly is a stock overvalued? (5 Feb 2021)
- The EV tipping point is firmly in sight (22 Jan 2021)
- Electric vehicles are approaching price parity (15 Jan 2021)
- The multi-agent joint production problem (12 Jan 2021)
- Canada's carbon pricing is continuing on the right track (14 Dec 2020)
- Updated: Canada's stock market during the COVID-19 pandemic (24 Nov 2020)
- Using hexagon tilemaps for election outcomes (15 Nov 2020)
- BC's mail-in vote revealed political biases (9 Nov 2020)
- BC's mail-in vote is unlikely to hold any surprises (26 Oct 2020)
- What role does hydrogen have in the future of electric mobility? (28 Sep 2020)
- Is the S&P-500 index getting more concentrated? (20 Aug 2020)
- The madness of round two of Trump's aluminium tariffs (7 Aug 2020)
- How much money could be saved by driving electric in Canada? (29 Jul 2020)
- British Columbia's Bill 17 drops electricity self-sufficiency (10 Jul 2020)
- Bivariate Uniform Random Numbers (5 Jul 2020)
- Are electric vehicles safer than their gasoline cousins? (2 Jul 2020)
- Poland's dual energy transition (26 Jun 2020)
- Canada's stock market during the COVID-19 pandemic (6 Jun 2020)
- Electricity demand in BC during the COVID-19 pandemic (18 May 2020)
- How much land is needed for wind and solar farms? (30 Apr 2020)
- Oil markets in super-contango (22 Apr 2020)
- How much does testing explain differences in COVID-19 fatality rates across the United States? (17 Apr 2020)
- A better measure of population density captures urbanization (12 Apr 2020)
- About COVID-19 charts (1 Apr 2020)
- Global supply chain resilience: how much is right? (26 Mar 2020)
- What can Canada learn from Germany's short-time work model? (17 Mar 2020)
- The cost components of automobile insurance and the bonus-malus system (29 Feb 2020)
- Visualizing Canada's Trade Profile (2018) (27 Feb 2020)
- Plastic straw bans spur innovation and a quest for eco-friendly alternatives (17 Feb 2020)
- Towards care-based automobile insurance in British Columbia (6 Feb 2020)
- Canada's rising gasoline demand and the need for more e-mobility (2 Feb 2020)
- How much more electricity does B.C. use when it gets cold? (31 Jan 2020)
- Electricity demand in British Columbia (26 Jan 2020)
- Can influenza really be stopped at the border? (24 Jan 2020)
- The strong case for public automobile insurance (22 Jan 2020)
- How to make international funds transfers cheaper (21 Dec 2019)
- Will nuclear fusion power ever become economical? (17 Dec 2019)
- Stopping caller ID spoofing and phone scams (7 Nov 2019)
- Canada's parliament with provincial proportional representation (26 Oct 2019)
- Canada's growing urban-rural political divide (23 Oct 2019)
- Making online banking safer in Canada (22 Oct 2019)
- Carbon pricing works - but what is the right dosage for the patient? (6 Oct 2019)
- Electoral reform with strong local representation (28 Sep 2019)
- Road Safety "Vision Zero" (16 Sep 2019)
- Will China lead the Electric Vehicle revolution? (8 Aug 2019)
- Ecolabel erosion: when energy labels grow stale (31 Jul 2019)
- Apollo 11's quinquagenary: when will humans return to the Moon? (20 Jul 2019)
- The mathematics of US Senate reform (4 Jul 2019)
- Marine plastic debris and the ban of single-use plastics (22 Jun 2019)
- Triangular Distribution Estimation (5 Jun 2019)
- Will Saharan solar power come to Europe at last? (30 May 2019)
- Fuel Efficiency and Your Driving Style (27 May 2019)
- Refining margins in BC and across Canada (1 May 2019)
- Bivariate Normal Random Numbers (3 Mar 2019)
- Euromyths and the Brexit train wreck (7 Feb 2019)
- Should Canada abolish its $100 banknotes? (1 Feb 2019)
- The strong case for extending SkyTrain to UBC (22 Jan 2019)
- Drone Control Policy (20 Jan 2019)
- Coal on the retreat is good news for climate change (8 Jan 2019)
- Bitcoins gobble up too much electricity (7 Dec 2018)
- BC needs a “right to charge” (27 Nov 2018)
- Electric vehicles will soon run on solid state batteries (24 Nov 2018)
- A sigmoid-logit probability function for the (0,1) domain (3 Nov 2018)
- The federal carbon pricing backstop becomes a carbon dividend (23 Oct 2018)
- Tax Pass-Through for Beginners (29 Sep 2018)
- State of the NAFTA negotiations: Canada standing firm while remaining flexible (3 Sep 2018)
- Trump administration: Make America Guzzle Gas Again (18 Aug 2018)
- The economics of when to leave for work, and important implications for congestion pricing (2 Aug 2018)
- Negative electricity prices (28 Jul 2018)
- Journalism with an academic flavour (18 Jul 2018)
- How regressive are fuel taxes in Canada? (15 Jul 2018)
- The virtues of negative exponential demand (30 Jun 2018)
- U.S. neomercantilism (25 Jun 2018)
- Progressive Property Taxation in Vancouver (28 May 2018)
- The Canadian Petrodollar - An Update (10 May 2018)
- "Speed on green" cameras help reduce traffic accidents (7 Mar 2018)
- Does LNG still have a future in BC? (31 Jan 2018)
- Structural decomposition analysis (8 Jan 2018)
- Free speech and civility in public discourse (1 Jan 2018)
- The Bitcoin bubble will burst—distributed ledger technology will survive (20 Dec 2017)
- What happened to the pass-through from crude oil to gasoline prices in Vancouver? (11 Nov 2017)
- Canada's changing electricity generation landscape (13 Oct 2017)
- Homicides across countries: a sad case of U.S. exceptionalism (4 Oct 2017)
- Growing our cross-border electricity infrastructure (1 Oct 2017)
- Are electric vehicles always cleaner? (4 Sep 2017)
- How to fix car insurance in British Columbia (25 Aug 2017)
- Reduce the alcohol limit for driving, and boost enforcement (15 Aug 2017)
- Volvo goes electric—will other carmakers follow? (15 Jul 2017)
- Welfare functions and inequality (30 Jun 2017)
- What does voter participation tell us about the outcome of the British Columbia 2017 provincial election? (11 May 2017)
- How does mobility pricing work? (22 Apr 2017)
- How ethical are introductory offers? (11 Apr 2017)
- The European Union turns 60 (29 Mar 2017)
- Say goodbye to plastic shopping bags (18 Mar 2017)
- Public Transit and Road Pricing (25 Feb 2017)
- Haphazard road tolling (11 Feb 2017)
- Will streaming television transform the TV advertising industry? (31 Jan 2017)
- Traffic congestion in Canada (28 Jan 2017)
- Canada's dangerous mountain of household debt (1 Jan 2017)
- How can climate policy succeed without US leadership? (20 Dec 2016)
- Growing income inequality and its political consequences (9 Nov 2016)
- In support of Washington State's Initiative 732 (6 Nov 2016)
- No ban of the internal combustion engine in Germany by 2030 (4 Nov 2016)
- Will methane cracking give natural gas an extended lease on life? (30 Oct 2016)
- Trouble looming for Quebec's emission permit system (19 Oct 2016)
- The case for all-inclusive prices (18 Sep 2016)
- Bayer acquires Monsanto: good parenting required (16 Sep 2016)
- The extensive margin of pollution abatement (15 Sep 2016)
- Speed enforcement through section control (16 Aug 2016)
- Driving with stop-start systems in Europe (8 Aug 2016)
- How are alternative fuel vehicles catching on in Europe? (16 Jul 2016)
- Brexit and the illusion of independence (5 Jul 2016)
- Walmart vs. VISA: the trouble with credit card fees in Canada (2 Jul 2016)
- How to design carbon pricing for energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries (17 Jun 2016)
- Does the US-Canada bond yield difference really predict the exchange rate? (10 Jun 2016)
- Electricity conservation tariffs: how do they work? (22 May 2016)
- Carbon emissions per capita ranking (1 May 2016)
- Landmark legal ruling on internal trade in Canada (29 Apr 2016)
- The Dorfman-Steiner Theorem and increasing returns to scale (31 Mar 2016)
- More evidence about the perils of Daylight Saving Time (30 Mar 2016)
- Triangular Dissimiliarity Diagrams and Triangular Gradient Shading in PostScript (23 Mar 2016)
- Should Canada abolish Daylight Saving Time? (13 Mar 2016)
- More power to the Lower Mainland (5 Mar 2016)
- Interaction effects in regression analysis (1 Mar 2016)
- Canadian Petrodollar Update (22 Feb 2016)
- Canadian banks should embrace electronic funds transfer (2 Feb 2016)
- Vancouver House Price Dynamics (23 Jan 2016)
- Canadian Dollar Extremes (16 Jan 2016)
- How to use a Roundabout (1 Jan 2016)
- The economics of altruism (24 Dec 2015)
- Reforming jury duty in Canada (17 Dec 2015)
- Electoral reform in Canada after the October 2015 elections (27 Nov 2015)
- Carbon dioxide taken out of thin air (13 Nov 2015)
- Electricity Economics and Demand Side Management (7 Nov 2015)
- Electoral participation in Canada (2 Nov 2015)
- Fictitious econometric precision (31 Oct 2015)
- About good debt, bad debt, and debt breaks (10 Oct 2015)
- The high price of Canada's segmented oil markets (3 Oct 2015)
- Area calculations with longitude and latitude (30 Sep 2015)
- Energy Economics with Zero Marginal Costs (19 Sep 2015)
- Seawater desalination: technology to quench the world's growing thirst for water (1 Sep 2015)
- Are you paying too much at the pump in Vancouver? (25 Aug 2015)
- The Panama Canal turns 101—and expands (15 Aug 2015)
- Will TPP liberate Canadian Dairy Markets? (8 Aug 2015)
- Canada's improvident water consumption (4 Aug 2015)
- Electoral entropy: the case for electoral reform continued (31 Jul 2015)
- Let our Canadian expats vote! (30 Jul 2015)
- The case for electoral reform in Canada (27 Jul 2015)
- Drought and water conservation in Vancouver (21 Jul 2015)
- How to rescue Greece (12 Jul 2015)
- Are Canada's carbon emission reduction targets realistic? (5 Jul 2015)
- Fun with indicator variables (26 Jun 2015)
- Is BC's carbon tax salient? (15 Jun 2015)
- Fossil fuels and declining oxygen in our atmosphere (1 Jun 2015)
- Ontario joins Quebec and California in carbon trading (18 May 2015)
- Are prices at the pump determined by Brent or West Texas? (8 May 2015)
- car2go is popular at UBC (5 May 2015)
- The Alberta Disadvantage (1 May 2015)
- Do gasoline prices rise like rockets and fall like feathers? (22 Apr 2015)
- How do crude oil prices affect prices at the pump in Vancouver? (11 Apr 2015)
- The Canadian Petrodollar (1 Apr 2015)
- Metro Vancouver needs more public transit (16 Mar 2015)
- Fixing the U.S. Budget (1 Mar 2015)
- Coal mining and selenium (7 Feb 2015)
- Automotive innovation (3 Feb 2015)
- Fossil-fuel divestment at UBC: feat or folly? (1 Feb 2015)
- Geothermal energy from hot sedimentary aquifers (15 Jan 2015)
- Driver fatigue detection (6 Jan 2015)
- Canada's incomplete metrication (1 Jan 2015)
- Fermat-Torricelli problem redux (24 Dec 2014)
- Alphabetical ballot order in Vancouver politics (19 Dec 2014)
- Site C Dam goes ahead (17 Dec 2014)
- Nuclear innovation or nuclear stagnation? (14 Dec 2014)
- Nuclear environmentalism? (12 Dec 2014)
- My SVG exam clock (10 Dec 2014)
- Income splitting in Canada (6 Dec 2014)
- Liquefied natural gas: resources and upstream issues (21 Nov 2014)
- Liquefied natural gas: technology choices and emissions (11 Nov 2014)
- Liquefied natural gas: transportation (5 Nov 2014)
- Smart water metering (2 Nov 2014)
- Liquefied natural gas: exporters and importers (30 Oct 2014)
- Liquefied natural gas: markets and prices (26 Oct 2014)
- UBC is letting off steam (22 Oct 2014)
- Clean energy and the Site C Dam (16 Oct 2014)
- Decomposing R-squared (10 Oct 2014)
- Grid-scale electricity storage with hydrogen (7 Oct 2014)
- Can flow batteries solve the electricity storage problem? (28 Sep 2014)
- The Space Cost Race (21 Sep 2014)
- Will Apple revolutionize payment systems? (10 Sep 2014)
- The trouble with tailings ponds (2 Sep 2014)
- Has a B.C. company found the key to economical carbon capture? (20 Aug 2014)
- Discouraging marijuana use (19 Aug 2014)
- Lessons from the Mount Polley mine tailings spill (8 Aug 2014)
- Internal trade barriers continue to stifle commerce in Canada (6 Aug 2014)
- Getting Energy Prices Right (31 Jul 2014)
- Germany rejects CETA—for now (28 Jul 2014)
- New York Times endorses marijuana legalization (27 Jul 2014)
- Farewell to Australia's carbon tax (24 Jul 2014)
- Why liberalize marijuana? (4 Jul 2014)
- Why blog? (1 Jul 2014)
- How big is the cross-border marijuana trade? (25 Jun 2014)
- Electric Common Sense (7 Jun 2014)
- Our automotive future? (6 Jun 2014)
- The Fiction of Internet Security (19 Apr 2014)
- Bitcoin Volatility (21 Jan 2014)
- What's next for Northern Gateway? (18 Jan 2014)
- Northern Gateway approved (19 Dec 2013)
- Welcome to CETA! (12 Dec 2013)
- Beware of Bitcoins (23 Nov 2011)
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