Presents midterm forecasts of energy supply, demand, and prices through 2020 prepared by the Energy Information Admin. (EIA). The projections are based on results from EIA's National Energy Modeling System. Discusses evolving legislative and regulatory issues. Also discusses macroeconomic projections, world oil and natural gas markets, oxygenates in gasoline, distributed electricity generation, electricity industry restructuring, and carbon dioxide emissions. Also analyzes energy market trends. The analysis in this report focuses primarily on a reference case and four other cases that assume higher and lower economic growth and higher and lower world oil prices than in the reference case. Tables.

Provides tables and graphs of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Each section has an introductory text. Each table and graph has a source note. Appendix 1 includes guides to sources of statistics, State statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts.