[American Constitutionalist]

Actually ? what the idea of the Department of Energy should have been in the first place should have been some kind of private organisation that worked together with industry and the private sector, also the public to solicite ideas in how our energy should be developed and big government stay out of it.
The Department of Energy should be privatized.

[PapaNew]

The Department of Energy should be privatized.

Nuke it. The market doesn't need some centralized beast to handle these issues. Let the free market supply and demand handle it.

Most of the other cabinet departments need to go also, especially HEW that wastes the equivalent of the annual economy of the world's sixth largest country.