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Letter to the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration Adam Sieminski - Explanation of Recent Gas Price Spike

Letter

By: Ron Wyden
By: Ron Wyden
Date: March 11, 2013
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Business and Consumers Oil and Gas

Following months of record-high gasoline prices, Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked the federal Energy Information Administration for data to explain the price spike.

"American families and businesses have been paying record-high gasoline prices at the pump even as domestic oil production recently hit its highest level in more than two decades," Wyden said in a letter to EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski.

In preparation for a hearing on gasoline prices later this spring, Wyden asked the agency to provide data concerning domestic oil production, exports and imports, refining capacity, transportation and mid-stream capacity, and consumption.

"This most recent round of gas price increases has come at a time of year when gas prices are typically at their lowest point, but that has not been the case this autumn and winter," Wyden wrote.

The letter can be found at the link below:

http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=e48f2723-24c7-4a18-9010-be475708a667


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