1. Introduction
In Iran, One of the main source of environmental pollutants is consuming of gasoline sector. gasoline is used as consumption good by private cars and as production factor by other vehicles. The statistics and figures of the gasoline consumption indicates that the amount of per capita gasoline consumption in Iran is more than what it is in the other part of the world. The consumption rate of growth of gasoline which forty percent of it’s consumption is provided by import and more than one billion dollar is paid for it’s importing each year, is very high. Because of the high rate of growth of gasoline consumption, the spreading of the environmental pollutants from gasoline consumption is increasing very fast and this can threatens the environment as a public goods. This parameters appear the importance of the subjects and the reasons of selection of it’s for research.
In this paper by using of an error correction version of ARDL model, the impact of changes of gasoline price on the demand of this oil product and its environmental pollutants in the short and long run are explained and the dynamic process of influencing has been described.
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