Author Archives: Steve Maley

The Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy compiles and analyzes energy-related statistics. One of their key reports is the Annual Energy Outlook. On December 14, EIA released its look at the next 25 years, the Annual Energy Outlook … Continue reading →

Slide 6 illustrates the difficulty of dramatically changing the energy use picture. Just as an aircraft carrier can’t be turned on a dime, neither can the enormous energy-consuming engine that is our economy. For the last several years, the U.S. … Continue reading →

This slide presents a very important concept. The Obama Administration, and the Left in general, see the prosperity of the U.S. as a problem to be remedied. Some would suggest, as RedState diarist Bernard Chumm has pointed out, deliberately crippling … Continue reading →

Beware the V-shaped forecast, when the bottom of the V is “today”. Consider the red curve, production. The EIA’s forecast has us reversing 40 years of decline, returning to the 1970 level of liquids production in just 25 years. How … Continue reading →

Now this graph is remarkable. It’s pretty much an admission by EIA that the Congressionally-mandated 2007 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) goal of 35 billion gallons of ethanol usage per year by 2022 will not be met. Not only that, EIA arrived … Continue reading →

An interesting bar chart that illustrates a point I wrote about recently in a RedState blog called The Big Energy Lie. “Resources” and “reserves” are not interchangeable terms. Reserves are quantities known with relative certainty that can be recovered or … Continue reading →

Several interesting things to note here. EIA takes the AGA Potential Gas Committee estimate of resources seriously. There is a large growth projected in shale gas, which they expect will keep prices low and actually depress exploration and development of … Continue reading →