The Peak Oil Crisis: EIA – The greatest failure of them all?

For those of you who don’t follow such things, there exists down on Independence Avenue a semi-autonomous little organization known as the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Created by Congress back in 1977, its mission

As we all know various parts of our federal government have had some rough times lately. Remember how the FBI reacted when an agent discovered that a suspicious Middle Eastern type was learning how to fly but not land commercial aircraft; or the Corp of Engineers’ seawalls; or FEMA’s rescue of New Orleans, or the CIA’s slam dunk; or the mother of all recent failures, the Pentagon’s efforts to democratize Baghdad. These are sure to make the history books.

Now what could a small band of government statisticians do to write themselves into infamy along with FEMA at New Orleans, the CIA estimate on WMD, Rumsfield’s Pentagon, and the neocon invasion of Iraq? Simple! They are in charge of telling America how much longer our cheap and plentiful energy supplies are going to last. If they get this wrong, the whole country is in a whole lot of trouble. Some think it might not even survive a rapid, unexpected transition to whatever follows the age of cheap energy.

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