Trump to scrap Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Office of Fossil Energy?

[muriel_volestrangler]

Rick Perry’s hearing was blindsided by a report that Trump plans to gut the Energy Department

Because just before Perry’s hearing started, the Hill published a report that Trump’s advisers were contemplating truly staggering, multi-trillion-dollar budget cuts across the entire federal government — including Perry’s department. The proposed cuts are based on a blueprint from the conservative Heritage Foundation that envisions gutting or zeroing out many of the Energy Department’s key science and energy research programs in everything from nuclear research to carbon capture for coal:

At the Department of Energy, it would roll back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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The Hill’s scoop completely overshadowed Perry’s hearing. At least five Democratic senators asked Perry about the report — and he was blindsided, clearly unaware that Trump was considering anything like this, and unsure how to respond.

http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/1/19/14324412/perry-energy-research-trump

[MFM008]

1. whos surprised.

[Zoonart]

2. OH FFS...

I am going to have to pace myself. I can't yell this much and not loose my mind. Also... my swear jar runneth over.

[mackdaddy]

3. One of my former students voted for the Orange shit stain.

He was actually a Bernie supporter, but voted for Trump because "we needed change" and "crooked Hillary". Would not hear of any argument about how bad Trump would be.

He has been doing Home energy efficiency audits. I am pretty sure the company he works for was partially funded by the DOE efficiency grants.

So it looks like his job will be gone with the opening bell. Some people only learn the hard way.

[mackdaddy]

4. the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the UNs IPCC also being cut.

"Under the State Department’s jurisdiction, funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are candidates for elimination."


We don't need no stinking Global Warming agreements. They just keep telling us selling our fossil fuel is going to kill us all anyway. Anti-capitalist.

[northoftheborder]

5. How Ironic!!!

One of Governor Oops Goodhair's departments he wanted to eliminate! He may get his wish! Just as he walks in the door with his proud duplicitous face fixed to become "one of the boys in the cabinet"!