The EIA Report on Federal Energy

I am confused.

Why is it necessary to blame someone?

Decreasing government energy/utility costs is a good thing in that the energy savings realized will result in less tax money being spent.

This may not immediately decrease tax levies but it will certainly help curb tax increases.

"certainly help curb tax increases" or will it just allow more tax cuts/shelters for the filthy rich and corporations who put their massive profits in foreign shelters?

I know, I'm just a cynical old SOB. But, what the hell, somebody's gotta do it.

And I must admit that you are doing a mighty fine job of doing it too!

I fear you may be right as I have yet to experience any tax relief despite numerous statements to the contrary by many politicians and several presidents over the my lifetime.

For some reason all my taxes just keep going up and up. And my insurance rates too. And my utilities. And my.... Oh hell what's the use nobody that counts in changing it is listening. WAL! WAL! WAL! FOUL I SAY! SNAFU and FUBAR!

WAL => Whine And Lick

Undefined pronoun: <...we...>.

There is no <...we...> in PWSlack. Please stop being abstruse.

" Declines in jet fuel consumption by the U.S. Department of Defense accounted for most of the decrease in federal energy use"

Yes this is easy to believe....in fact I could have told you this...

Maybe it was necessary to post an opinion of your own!

I only believe what I see three times in the internet with complete different wording from complete different sources that all evaluated the issue themselves and then only half of it plus anything that comes from an official agency dependent on the agencies purpose and what was written. If EIA has a statistic to share I can look at it and do not even have to believe it. But it still is something about energy from the Energy Information Administration. Unless you have other sources this is just the information you will have to live with.

I blame you for not sharing your opinion and concerns.

I find it extremely difficult to believe the energy useage for the government has declined considering how much the government has grown since then. Too much "do as I say and not as I do", that IMO, only gets worse with the passage of time. Sort of like the government unemployment figures. They don't like the numbers so they change the way it's calculated.

I suppose I was hoping that in posting, one of our participants may have been especially in the know (e. g., an insider anonymous whistle-blower type) who could have shed some authoritative light on the subject. For now we seem to be caught up in whatever we can scour from the public domain and our personal conjectures. So if you are out there and are privileged in your knowledge of the topic, got to a library somewhere and log on to give us the "inside scoop".

Meanwhile, a compelling sub-thread is the topic of CR4 being an opportunity for anonymous insiders to make postings of info that is not accessible in the public domain, but very much in the interest of transparency, professional enlightenment to the denizens of CR4, and, beyond, in the general public interest. Or is such an otherwise worthwhile purpose a naive expectation, an open invitation to disinformation being cast among us?

Yes, Rick, the data are a bit strange and counter-intuitive.

For the Federal government to consume energy, first they must actually be involved in some activity, and not sitting upon their well-dusted arses.