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Impacts of Modeled Provisions of H.R. 6 EH: The Energy Policy Act of 2005

Notes

1) Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2005, DOE/EIA-0383(2005) (Washington, DC, February 2005), web site http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/.

2) See Appendix A.

3) Energy Information Administration, The National Energy Modeling System: An Overview 2003, DOE/EIA-0581(2003) (Washington, DC, March 2003), web site http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/overview/.

4) A play is a set of known or postulated oil and/or gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal qualities, such as source rock, migration pathway, timing, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type.

5) World oil prices are defined as the average refiner acquisition cost of crude oil imported into the United States.

6) U.S. Geological Survey, USGS Fact Sheet FS-028-01 (April 2001), web site http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0028-01.

7) Small refineries with a capacity not exceeding 75,000 barrels per calendar day are exempted from the renewable fuels program.

8) The reference case includes MTBE bans in 20 States (mainly in RFG used in California, New York, Connecticut, Missouri, and Kentucky), which collectively accounted for more than one-half of the Nation’s MTBE consumption before MTBE was banned in those States. Three more States banned MTBE in 2005. However, none of these has ever used it in the past.

9) The oxygenate waiver would take effect 270 days after enactment of the H.R. 6 EH.

10) The incremental production of corn requires energy inputs to till the land and fertilize, harvest, and transport the corn.

11) Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Star Program Requirements for Exit Signs, (April 2001). The Environmental Protection Agency revised the Energy Star specifications for illuminated exit signs effective August 1, 2004. Input power requirements remain at 5 watts or less per sign. Version 3.0 performance requirements are available at www.energystar.gov/ia/parners/product_specs/eligibility/exit_signs_elig.pdf.

12) National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Guide for Determining Energy Efficiency for Distribution Transformers, NEMA TP 1-2002 (Rosslyn, VA, 2000), Table 4-2, p. 8.