How well has the DOE cut US reliance on foreign oil per its charter?

[sterlinga]

Over at PESWiki we've posted a page about the DOE's charter from 1977, and we ask the question: How well they are doing?

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:How_Well_is_U.S._Department_of_Energy_Fulfilling_Its_Mandate_to_Facilitate_Clean_Energy%3F

Begun officially on August 4, 1977 during the Carter administration, now with 16,000 employees, 100,000 contract employees and an annual budget of over $24 billion, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was created to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil; develop energy efficient technologies; strengthen America's energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality; and ...bring clean, reliable and affordable energy technologies to the marketplace.

Three decades later, how has this well-funded federal department done?

Here's a link to the poll: http://www.buzzdash.com/polls/how-well-has-the-doe-cut-us-reliance-on-foreign-oil-per-its-charter-150733/

So far, most people are rating the DOE as "abysmal" or lower.

As of Mar. 4, 2009, here is the tally:
- Well done: 11%
- Not so good: 6%
- Abysmal: 51%
- DOE is more an obstacle: 21%
- Our NEC is doing a better job: 11%

("NEC" refers to http://newenergycongress.org.)

What's your take? Has it become a matter of the foxes guarding the henhouse?

[SomedayIsle]

What's your take? Has it become a matter of the foxes guarding the henhouse?

Available evidence indicates it is well beyond that.  I believe it to be more accurately a matter of the foxes, fattened on chickens, now guarding the fox den.


For TPTB, it has always been about control of resources.  Keep yours longer than the other guy.  Use up the 'stupider' guys resources and if that can't be accomplished, try and make his of little value.  Those who worship a military god are hard pressed to escape it's grasp.


I mean, look at the shameful display of their federal counterparts in the financial sector....giving trillions to one of the most corrupted sectors of society, while mom and pop america stumble and fall as paralyzed hosts to cwhoreporate parasites, the likes of which the world has never seen on such a dismally bloated scale.


It seems as though their end game logistics absolutely require a revolution of sorts in order to better fully implement their 'stragedy'......they sure seem to be trying to start one in earnest....


wonder what's up their sleeves?


Maybe they've realized just how dangerous a worldwide pandemic of wanton disillusionment and apathy can be to the best laid plans of mice and.....well, rodents of all kinds.



God bless

[Liberty]

Over at PESWiki we've posted a page about the DOE's charter from 1977, and we ask the question: How well they are doing?

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:How_Well_is_U.S._Department_of_Energy_Fulfilling_Its_Mandate_to_Facilitate_Clean_Energy%3F

Begun officially on August 4, 1977 during the Carter administration, now with 16,000 employees, 100,000 contract employees and an annual budget of over $24 billion, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was created to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil; develop energy efficient technologies; strengthen America's energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality; and ...bring clean, reliable and affordable energy technologies to the marketplace.

Three decades later, how has this well-funded federal department done?

Here's a link to the poll: http://www.buzzdash.com/polls/how-well-has-the-doe-cut-us-reliance-on-foreign-oil-per-its-charter-150733/

So far, most people are rating the DOE as "abysmal" or lower.

As of Mar. 4, 2009, here is the tally:
- Well done: 11%
- Not so good: 6%
- Abysmal: 51%
- DOE is more an obstacle: 21%
- Our NEC is doing a better job: 11%

("NEC" refers to http://newenergycongress.org.)

What's your take? Has it become a matter of the foxes guarding the henhouse?

If you look at the limited technology that the DOE will fund, it is no surprise that they have no new clean technologies since their creation in 1977.  They tend to ignore permanent magnet motor technology and probably many others.  They also don't seem to want to be friendly to inventors, even if they know about them.   (Way too many hoops to jump through), usually just scientists at colleges get funded perpetually.

[SomedayIsle]

There's control and then there's the illusion of control.....

And the more some seek to grab, the greater becomes the illusion, until the inevitable occurs.

Rare are the ones blessed with the heart and strength to discern correctly and act with wisdom.