sleuthing. I ran across them for a year or so when digging up information about refining capacity and distillate production-demand.
The thing about EIA i particularly like is that even though they're an Executive Branch agency, and one might expect their "spin" on things to hew to the Administration world view, their data is pretty straight-up, and leads to some pretty inescapable, bleak and terrifying conclusions.
I'd challenge anyone who thinks they have a handle on the energy situation, or who believes the current unpleasantness is going to just go away, to spend a little time there. An intellectually honest review of EIA's information will likely compel reader to reevaluate his energy use habits.
Their site is a bit flat and seemingly featureless, so here's a nice for the current 20 year forecast.
For supplemental reading, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics EIA's information.
Personally, i'd recommend people get hott on demand reduction, because it's going to happen. The only question is how much of it will be imposed by "the marketplace", how much by governmental* fiat, and how much by the individual.
.max
*well, ok, the recent energy bill shows the feds really aren't capable of making any meaningful changes energy policy, placing the burden for directed relevant action on the consumer. Ergo, we're doomed. (just watch -- one of the next four articles in this thread will explain why its too burdensome to change our habits and why i'm unreasonable to suggest we should)
