Budget
Located in Washington, DC, EIA is an organization of about 380 federal employees. EIA's Fiscal Year 2012 budget provides $105 million, an increase of $9.6 million, or 10 percent, from the Fiscal Year 2011 level. The increased FY 2012 funding level improves EIA's ability to provide comprehensive, relevant energy statistics, analyses, and forecasts and enables the agency to deliver this information to its customers in the most efficient and effective ways.
In FY 2012 EIA will focus on the following areas: Conducting the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS), promoting energy literacy through product content, upgrading EIA's energy modeling and analysis capabilities, and providing critical information on crude oil and product prices.
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Famous quotes containing the word budget:
“A budget takes the fun out of money.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“The United States is the only great nation whose government is operated without a budget. The fact is to be the more striking when it is considered that budgets and budget procedures are the outgrowth of democratic doctrines and have an important part in developing the modern constitutional rights.... The constitutional purpose of a budget is to make government responsive to public opinion and responsible for its acts.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)