[worst-case scenario]

Your lightbulbs are all well and good. But this is still a big issue, since the rest of the industrialized world is paying a lot of attention to these issues. Has the responsibility for energy issues been assigned elsewhere?

[RinaseaofDs]

We still have a department of energy, and a ton of redundant oversight on this issue. Frankly, it’s a market issue more than an issue requiring regulation and oversight.

I hope the next move is the reclassification of 1000’s of square miles of ‘wilderness’ to be open to drilling and development. (Mining of rare earths, for example).

[goodnesswins]

Yeah...maybe to the PRIVATE SECTOR where it belongs!

[justice14]

Has the responsibility for energy issues been assigned elsewhere?

Hopefully to the people of America, where it belongs.

[brownsfan]

“Has the responsibility for energy issues been assigned elsewhere?”

Hey, how about this? You’re on a CONSERVATIVE site, ever think that maybe the market can handle many of these issues? If compact flourescent bulbs are better, then consumers will buy them. If windmills make sense, they’ll be built, etc.

[Outlaw Woman]

You seem to imply that this nazi/marxist committee was the only one addressing anything at all regarding energy issues. Please don’t say you actually believe the gw bull*hit.

What do you mean the rest of the industralized world is paying a lot of attention to these issues? The U.S. is probably the most suffocated, regulated industrialized nation on the planet. Who is paying attention? China? Japan? No

Here’s a link for you.

http://energycommerce.house.gov/

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That committe was only about Global Governance...The Global Warming Hype is nothing but a Global Scam out of the UN and the IPCC...

For what is really going on see this thread:

Little Ice Age And Expanding Arctic Ice -“Climate Forecasts Will Have To Be Thrown In The Dustbin”

[Lou L]

But this is still a big issue, since the rest of the industrialized world is paying a lot of attention to these issues.

To paraphrase Obama, "doing what the rest of the world is doing is not leadership." China is part of the industrialized world, and they don't buy into the global warming claptrap. Global warming, for those intellectually honest enough to admit it, has been effectively debunked in the past 12 months.

I'm not suggesting we shouldn't conserve resources and try to be good stewards of our planet. But let's not create some feel-good commitee in Congress be cause, some socialist countries in Europe are doing so.

[DesertRhino]

‘energy issues assigned elsewhere?’

Why? Until recently, we didn’t have a dept of energy. The free market will supply all the energy we need ,,,even without government! All government does is impede it, and make it more expensive.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

But this is still a big issue, since the rest of the industrialized world is paying a lot of attention to these issues.

[Anotherpunkedamerican]

"Has the responsibility for energy issues been assigned elsewhere?"

What energy issues? Obomba has them all covered.

[Ditto]

Has the responsibility for energy issues been assigned elsewhere?

I suggest assignment to the Private Sector and get the Washington cleptocrats out of it altogether.

[panthermom]

The next energy issue to be instituted is DRILLING domestically!

[hinckley buzzard]

Try the House Energy and Commerce Committee.