US Dept of Energy Pulls Back $13 Billion in

In the latest installment of “Yes, this is what we voted for,” we be taught that the United States Department of Energy can be returning $13 billion – that’s with a “B” adopted by an “-illion” – to the treasury. That money was supposed for “green energy” boondoggles, and now it may be spent (we hope) instead on one thing useful.

The U.S. Department of Energy can be returning to American taxpayers $13 billion in “unobligated wasteful spending” that was initially supposed for former President Joe Biden’s climate agenda.

In response, Larry Behrens from Power the Future told The Center Square that “by returning $13 billion, the Department of Energy under President Trump is showing respect for taxpayers and a willingness to end funding for programs that don’t work.”

Power the Future is a nonprofit devoted to Americans who work in dependable power sources.

Behrens told The Center Square that the Department of Energy’s motion “is a welcome step toward restoring accountability and letting free markets – not bureaucrats – determine our energy future.”

“The American people made it crystal clear at the ballot box that they don’t want another taxpayer dollar wastefully spent on green scam pet projects,” Behrens said.

We have seen too many of these inexperienced power scams soak up billions already, only to fail. Indeed, their failure is as inevitable as the dawn; these low-density power sources, in the end, cannot and will not substitute high-density sources. Physics is a harsh mistress.

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So, what more will be accomplished? Well, turns on the market’s nearly actually more waste on the market.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Heritage Foundation told The Center Square that with the return of $13 billion, “the deficit will be lower than otherwise.”

When requested what other actions the Department of Energy ought to take to end wasteful spending, Furchtgott-Roth said that “the Department should comb through its budget and see what projects can be accomplished by the private sector, then end those projects.”

“The Department should also look through its regulations and see which ones impose costs on businesses and families,” Furchtgott-Roth said. 

“For instance, the Department should eliminate appliance regulations that prevent companies from producing the gas stoves, boilers, or water heaters that people want to buy,” Furchtgott Roth said.

The equipment rules are significantly odious. Mandating a more costly electric range over a fuel range is nicely to the left of silly, not to point out wasteful; the electrical energy for that range has to be generated someplace, and the legal guidelines of thermodynamics would inform us that it is more environment friendly to burn natural fuel in a range than it’s to burn natural fuel at a energy plant, then to ship electrical energy out through the strains to energy an electric range.

But then, we won’t count on the inexperienced power advocates to care a lot about minutiae like that when there are raptor-killing windmills to be constructed.

In the official press release, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright writes:

The American people elected President Trump largely because of the last administration’s reckless spending on climate insurance policies that fed inflation and failed to present any real benefit to the American people. Thanks to President Trump and Congress, those days are over. By returning these funds to the American taxpayer, the Trump administration is affirming its dedication to advancing more inexpensive, dependable, and secure American power and being more accountable stewards of taxpayer {dollars}.

Yep. That’s what we voted for. Keep it up, Mr. Secretary, and let’s authorize some more nuclear energy plants while we’re at it.

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