Abolish the Department of Energy
It causes far more trouble than it's worth.
by Peter Z. Grossman
January 7, 2017
When former Texas governor Rick Perry ran for president in 2012, he promised he’d abolish the U.S. Department of Energy (at least when he could remember it). Liberals wrote this off as typical conservative stupidity.
Why would anyone want to abolish the DOE? According to one liberal commentator, it was because the department “was established during Jimmy Carter’s administration and it perhaps sounds like it might have something to do with solar panels.”
Jimmy Carter created it, all right, but solar panels were only a symptom of the real problem. The DOE was conceived in dark and pessimistic beliefs and forecasts that have proven totally wrong. As Obama might say, the DOE is on the wrong side of history.
As it stands the department needs to either be rethought or retired.
The original legislation justified a Department of Energy because:
We were rapidly running out of fossil fuels, especially oil and natural gas;
As a consequence of this we were becoming in…
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