DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason

given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF 

ENERGY during the Carter Administration? Anybody? 

Anything? No? 

Didn't think so. Excuse me... I'm old... 

it was the high gas prices 

Bottom line . . we've spent several hundred billion 

dollars in support of an agency the reason for which 

not one person who reads this can remember. 

Ready? It was very simple, and at the time everybody 

thought it very appropriate. The Department of Energy

was instituted 8-04-1977 TO "LESSEN OUR 

DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL". HEY, PRETTY 

EFFICIENT - HUH? 

AND NOW IT'S 2008, 31 YEARS LATER, AND THE 

BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT

IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR, THEY HAVE 16,000 

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, AND APPROXIMATELY 

100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT 

THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE! 

THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND 

SAY: 'WHAT WAS  I THINKING?' 

Ah yes, good ole bureaucracy. And now we are going to 

turn the Banking system over to them?