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Frugals, Militants and the Oil Market

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  • Pierre-Olivier Pineau
  • Etienne Billette de Villemeur

    (LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

The oil market has often been modeled as an oligopoly where the strategic players are producers. With climate change, a new sort of game appeared, where environmental militants play a significant role by opposing some projects, to contain oil production. At the same time, consumers continue to use increasing amounts of oil, independently of oil price fluctuations. Should we oppose oil projects, reduce demand or both? We investigate in this paper the double prisoner's dilemma in which individuals find themselves, with respect to oil consumption and their environmental stance towards the oil industry. We find that the collective outcome of such game is clearly better when a frugal behaviour is adopted, without being militant. The Nash equilibrium, resulting from the individual strategies, leads by contrast to the worst possible outcome: high prices, high consumption and high environmental (negative) impact. An effective environmental action should avoid opposing oil supply sources (a costly militant act) and help consumers becoming more frugal.

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  • Pierre-Olivier Pineau & Etienne Billette de Villemeur, 2019. "Frugals, Militants and the Oil Market," Post-Print hal-02513079, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02513079
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19107-8_15
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    Keywords

    Prisoner’s dilemma; Oil production; Militancy; Frugality;
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    JEL classification:

    • D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
    • D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
    • Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices

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