Article ID: CBB001251044

The Crusade for Credible Energy Information and Analysis in the United States, 1973--1982 (2012)

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Until the oil-based `energy crisis' of 1973, the American Petroleum Institute and other private interests created the vast majority of energy statistics consumed in the United States. As the OPEC embargo set in, however, the American Petroleum Institute and the petroleum companies fell under a pall of perceived conspiracy. The US executive branch began creating its own statistics as part of the newly created Federal Energy Agency, but legislators quickly came to believe that the agency was purposely skewing the data to support the president's policies. In this context, Congress set about, again, to create a statistics-building group, which became known as the Energy Information Administration, that would be `independent' from both presidential and legislative politics and that could manufacture trust. This article argues that federal bureaucrats used various means, both interpersonal and mechanical (mathematical and statistical), to build credible energy information and analysis

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Authors & Contributors
Neil H. Ritson
Tate, Ryan Driskell
Arlette Jappe
Ellen R. Wald
Lifset, Robert
Heinze, Thomas
Concepts
Energy resources and technologies
Science and government
Technology and government
Public policy
Dams
Electric power industry
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Japan
Germany
California (U.S.)
Middle and Near East
Pacific Northwest (North America)
Institutions
Petroleum Administration for Defense (PAD)
United States. Department of Energy
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