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The EIA - Yesterday And Today: Reflections Of A Former Administrator
 
In the mid-1980s, when the pressure for removal of natural gas price controls came to a head in the United States, Chairman Dingell of the House Energy and Commerce Committee commissioned the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to analyze the current market situation and to assess the consequences of decontrol.

By – H A Merklein, former head of the EIA*
 
The study that...