O.T. Cairo, Egypt

[BOSSMANPC]

It will get better, just hang in there.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

I hate getting political but the Department of Energy was formed in the 70's with approximately 120 members. Their goal was to brainstorm and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Fast forward to 2011, the department now has over 15,000 employees and we are more dependent on foreign oil than ever. This is a good example of big government at work.

This country needs to focus and do it soon. Like another posters said "Suez Canal", If Egypt is controlled by extremist and the canal things will NOT get better.

End of my political rant\

In 2009, the Wall St. Journal reported that the Department of Energy had failed its own energy audit. The journal quoted the audit as saying, "While the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) noted that shutting down a computer monitor when not in use is one of the easiest things a user can do to save energy, we found that … each of the 20 computers reviewed at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) were set to never turn off the monitor after a period of non-use. At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), 8 of 18 computers were set to turn the monitor off after 48 hours, 144 times the recommended standard."

I believe in high school they told us that one of the reasons the DoE expanded so rapidly is the fact that they were tasked with overseeing nuclear weapon and energy development, something that was growing exponentially important during the Cold War. But yeah, we are still dependent on fossil fuels today.. get with the program, you bloated government bureaucracy!