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in 2010 and 2011, respectively. t margin for oil refiners. Put simply, the empirical results merely reflect the fact that ethanol production increased during the sample period whereas the ratio of gasoline to crude oil prices decreased. The paper by Prof. Christopher Knittel at MIT and Assoc. The estimate drops further to $0.09
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