The only interest here in either the Executive or the Legislative branch, is in subsidizing the problems, not solving them.You cite legitimate problems with the Legislative branch, but still blame the Executive branch. Once again...the President proposes, Congress disposes...that is just the way it works. The President has done his part by putting in a proposal and has repeatedly urged Congress to pass an energy bill, which includes an R&D budget. He has no direct control over their actions or inactions.
You are ignoring the point. His proposal would solve nothing, it would continue the displacement of actual solutions by continuing to subsidize the large corporations in energy, ethanol, auto and other areas that are resisting and blocking the solutions. When I and others have briefed or informed those who know the President, starting back before his election, it goes through the same cycle of consultation with those who immediately assert that "there is nothing to it," while their own organizations assure that the solutions will not be implemented unless they can appropriate and control them. When interviewed several years ago by a WND reporter about one of the technologies of which I speak, an Exxon spokesperson replied that she thought that Exxon-Mobil was working on something like that. Correct, they, for several years, employed some 37 researchers trying to back engineer and appropriate the technology. They failed. The Bush administration is incapable of penetrating this culture to get at actual solutions. What oil companies seek to take without paying for unsuccessfully they are not going to tell Bush and his close advisors about.
The eecutive branch, and particularly the White House and the DOE, are locked in a culture where it is impossible for them to even see solutions, must less implement them. The preservation of the blocking institutions is more important to them than solving the problems. History is full of such behavior on the part of seemingly wsrld dominant governments.