Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2003

Table 69.     Transportation Rate Multipliers
                     (2001=1.000)

Year

Reference Case

High Oil  Price

Low  Oil  Price

High Economic Growth

Low Economic Growth

2001

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

2005

0.9661

0.9786

0.9647

0.9683

0.9664

2010

0.9304

0.9525

0.9189

0.9428

0.9222

2015

0.8739

0.8916

0.8598

0.9006

0.8566

2020
0.7954
0.8107
0.7810
0.8277
0.7703

2025

0.7487

0.7604

0.7339

0.7824

0.7143

Source:  Energy Information Administration.  Based on methodology described in “Forecasting Annual Energy Outlook Coal Transportation Rates”, Issues in Midterm Analysis and Forecasting 1997, DOE/EIA-0607(97), (Washington, DC, July 1997).