Federal government’s shutdown wipes out EIA

WASHINGTON -- The ongoing U.S. federal government’s shutdown, and the impunity with which the Obama administration has shut down services selectively, has finally impacted the Energy Information Administration’s operations, and its website. This action follows a confusing round of double-talk at the beginning of the month, in which the Obama White House, in describing which agencies would be defined as “essential” and “non-essential,” originally described the EIA as non-essential.