%0 Journal Article %T An¨¢lise de sensibilidade do consumo de gasolina C entre julho de 2001 e dezembro de 2008: pol¨ªtica tribut¨¢ria estadual como instrumento de pol¨ªticas energ¨¦ticas e ambientais %A Vilela %A Tha¨ªs Machado de M. %A Pinto Junior %A Helder Queiroz %J Nova Economia %D 2010 %I Federal University of Minas Gerais %R 10.1590/S0103-63512010000300001 %X this paper is focused on a descriptive analysis of gasoline consumption to identify different consumers' behaviors among brazilian states. the sensitive analysis of gasoline demand to price variation must consider a larger set of variables. trough a traditional econometric time series approach, this paper aims at assessing the different reactions to price changes, more specifically, changes in state tax, icms, over gasoline. the tax-elasticity calculation allows us to verify the possible use of state public policies, specially concerning environmental and energy issues. %K gasoline %K demand price-elasticity %K icms. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-63512010000300001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en