Gasoline demand is down from its peak and is likely to decline even more as vehicle fleet becomes more efficient. In addition to this trend reversal, International Oil production is less concentrated. Opecs share of production is down from 53 to about 35 . The existence of all contracts on the futures markets development of benchmark crude oil pricing and the availability of basic data from eia created by congress in 1977 have all brought Greater Transparency to the oil markets. As described in my written statement, eia is actively pursuing a number of important initiatives related to the timeliness and detailed of oil market data. Id like to thank you for the opportunity to testify here today, and hope to be able to answer your questions. Thank you. Thank you very much. And our next witness is mr. Lucian pugliaresi, president of the Energy Policy research foundation, agile recognized for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Be sure to microphone on. Next slide. What id like to do is
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Going green. Guy eurozone pmi coming in. The Services Data falling to 53. 3. The forecast was 53. 9. Q2 is not going to be as strong as it was in q1. Maybe this reality just beginning to fade a little bit. The manufacturing number stronger than anticipated for the aggregate number for the eurozone. Lets find out what is going on in paris. Leaders gathering for the business and climate summit. How will we cover this . We dispatched Francine Lacqua. You have been talking to great guests. Francine we certainly have. We are not expecting anything concrete, there is a clear sentiment that there has been a business shift. A lot of these leaders basically are starting to look at this because they are expecting some kind of agreement set in stone by the end of the year. We spoke to be loreal ceo exclusively, he was telling me they already have a lot of things in place for example for Waste Management, reducing packaging. If you look at oil and grass gas industries, that will be problematic if
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[indiscernible conversations] thank you. Ok . Thank you. Thank you. [ all talking at once] ok, thank you. So Democratic Leaders discussed the midterm results and the agenda moving forward including their intention to pass a bill this week that protect same sex marriage. Chuck schumer also commented on florida senator rick scotts move to challenge Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell for his leadership post. I dont think you are waiting for me. But the person youre waiting for is going to take a while, i think. Ok. Good afternoon. Glad to be joined by our Leadership Team of senators durbin, murray, stepan now and senator baldwin. We had a great and spirited discussion in our caucus. Democrats are ready and eager and united to finish this congress on a very strong note. We are excited for the future with a new and hopefully a little larger majority than we had in the last congress. This senate, the longest 5050 senate in history, has been extraordinarily productive. Nearly two years into the