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Books): Robert R THE r WILSON QUARTERLY AUTUMN 1980 A NATIONAL REVIEW OF IDEAS AND INFORMATION WOODROW WILSON INTERN.--IONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS Smithso~ionInstitution Buffdiq Washington D.C. WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS Director, James H. Billington Deputy Director, Prosser Gifford THE WILSON QUARTERLY Editor: Peter Braestrup Managin Editor: Anna Marie Torres Senior ~iitor:Cullen Murphy Associate Editor (Books): Robert R. Harris Associate Editor (Periodicals): Alan Tonelson Assistant Editor: Bradley Rymph Editorial Assistant: T. E. Ricks Editorial Secretary: Patricia R. Sheridan Administrative Assistant: Melanie Davis Production Coordinator: Renee L. Gemand Research Assistants: Mark J. Auslander, Alison C. Jones, Tim Kalich, Jennifer Widner Librarian: Zden6k V. David Design Consultant: Elizabeth Dixon Design Assistant: Mary McNeil Business Manager: William M. Dunn Circulation Coordinator: Karl Ackerman Editorial Advisers: Abbott Gleason, A. E. Dick Howard, Abraham Lowenthal, Lois Decker O'Neill, Richard Seamon, S. Frederick Starr, Allen Weinstein, Samuel F. Wells, Jr. Published in January, April, July, and October by the Woodrow Wilson Interna- tional Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution Building, Washington, D.C. 20560. Indexed biennially. Copyright @ 1980 by the Woodrow Wilson Inter- national Center for Scholars. THE WILSON QUARTERLY is a registered trade- mark. Subscriptions: one year, $14; two years, $24; three years, $35. Foreign subscriptions: one year, $16; two years, $28; three years, $41. Foreign subscrip- tions air mail: one year, $26; two years, $48; three ears, S71. Lifetime subscrip- tion (domestic only): $150. Sin le copies and backissues mailed upon request: $4.50, including postage and handling; outside U.S. and possessions, $6.50. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C., and additional mailing offices. Editorial0 ices Smzthsonian Institution Building, Washin ton, D.C. 20560. 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Butane, besides That's where the United States has its use in cigarette lighters, has a far more been slowly heading since the government important application in improving the began lifting price controls on the oil busi- cold-weather starting capacity of motor ness. As long as OPEC sets the price of so fuel. Since butane is derived from crude oil much of the crude oil America uses-al- and natural gas, its price was affected not most half, currently-we can't expect that only by oil industry costs but also by the decontrol will lower energy prices. But with controls program. The price of butane was the straitjacket beginning to come off, decontrolled last winter, the very season we can expect the market to work back when demand for butane is at its strongest. toward what it does so well: allocating re- Many refiners and others thought there'd sources efficiently and thus making more be a shortage, or a leap in the price. In- supplies available-at the lowest possible stead, the industry started scrambling, and cost. in a matter of months, the price of butane With the burden of price control eas- dropped by 25 cents a gallon. ing, business is encouraged to scramble We saw a similar result in the case of for the best deal again. When the scram- natural gasoline-a substance derived blers include the 10,000 firms, large and from natural gas that can be used to make small, that risk their funds in exploration motor fuel. Under controls, refiners had to and production of petroleum in this coun- wrestle with a complicated system for shar- try, their very competition assures that cus- ing and allocating the supply of natural tomers can often gain ground in their own gasoline. With decontrol, refiners started battle for economic survival and prosperity. scrambling for the best deal. And the price Signs that decontrol has already soon fell by about 25 cents per gallon. begun to work for consumers are not hard Satisfying the bureaucrats, as America to find. Natural gas production in the U.S. did for so long with price controls on the oil turned upward in 1979, reversing a decline business, can be an expensive indulgence. that had persisted since 1973-and the A recent study by two university econo- president of the American Gas Association mists concluded that price controls on oil says the incentives provided by decontrol have been costing the United States $3 bil- were important in achieving this turn- lion each year by generating red tape, dis- around. According to an energy official in couraging domestic production, and en- Texas, the same thing happened there in couraging excessive demand. 1979 when the gradual decontrol process That's a rather high price to pay for began. He estimates that the Texas up- happy bureaucrats. We think most Ameri- swing in natural gas production has saved cans, given the choice, would prefer the American consumers more than $1 billion scramble of free markets-and the cost in outlays for imported oil. efficiencies that only competition can What happened to the price of butane produce. Mobil ^ISSO Mobil Corporation 1 Now in Paperback 1 Political Control of the Economy Edward R. Tufte "Lucid, comprehensive, brilliant." -James Q. Wilson, Commentary Winner of the 1979 Gladys Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on U.S. national policy. 'A remarkable study, one that is provocative and concise, sometimes brazen in its theoretical assumptions and assertions, laced throughout with elegance and wit. 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