Infuriating: budget cuts silence reporting on Big Oil, greenhouse gas emissions

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The Energy Information Administration, ostensibly because of budget cuts, is taking the following steps. Anyone else have a problem with this?

"Curtail efforts to understand linkages between physical energy markets and financial trading.

Curtail collection and dissemination of monthly state-level data on wholesale petroleum product prices, including gasoline, diesel, heating oil, propane, residual fuel oil, and kerosene. Also, terminate the preparation and publication of the annual petroleum marketing data report and the fuel oil and kerosene sales report.

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Suspend auditing of data submitted by major oil and natural gas companies and reporting on their 2010 financial performance through EIA's Financial Reporting System.

Reduce collection of data from natural gas marketing companies.

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Terminate annual data collection and report on geothermal space heating (heat pump) systems.

Terminate annual data collection and report on solar thermal systems.
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Suspend work on EIA's 2011 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS), the Nation's only source of statistical data for energy consumption and related characteristics of commercial buildings.

Terminate updates to EIA's International Energy Statistics.

Halt preparation of the 2012 edition of EIA's International Energy Outlook.

Suspend further upgrades to the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). NEMS is the country's preeminent tool for developing projections of U.S. energy production, consumption, prices, and technologies and its results are widely used by policymakers, industry, and others in making energy-related decisions. A multiyear project to replace aging NEMS components will be halted.

Eliminate annual published inventory of Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States.

Limit responses to requests from policymakers for special analyses.

In addition to these program changes, EIA will cut live telephone support at its Customer Contact Center."

http://theenergycollective.com/mtobis/56623/energy-information-administration-press-release?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+%28all+posts%29

:grr:

[Bigmack]

1. Eliminate Confusion

by halting the dissemination of facts.... Ms Bigmack