The Department of Energy needs a complete overhaul.
meeting I established DOE In 1973, in response to the 1973 oil crisis, we integrated a patchwork of energy-related programs under one roof. The department took over management of nuclear programmes, national labs and various alternative energy efforts. The 2025 budget is $50 billion. It supports 14,000 employees and supports 95,000 incredible contractors in 83 field locations.
The government's efficiency department should scrutinise the effectiveness of DOEs, just like any other federal agency. However, the department is demanding a different kind of review. This issue is not just about waste and mismanagement. the mission.
Energy is the lifeblood of any advanced society. The DOE must pursue one top priority goal. It is to make it independent of American energy with a long-term strategy for inexpensive and rich powers. That's not what it's doing.
Yes, the energy sector should remain a free market company. But it is also a national asset. Energy production and distribution are essential to American sovereignty, economic security, and global impact. It brings more DOE than just a bloated bureaucracy. It is a strategic responsibility unless it is restructured for purposes.
If Doe cannot define its purpose, Doge must.
Rapid population growth, AI, crypto mining, robotics and automation all drive an explosive demand for electricity.
One of the department's core missions is to ensure America's energy independence. This is not just a good policy, it is a national security obligation.
Wars are won or lost based on their ability to promote military and industrial operations. If America is unable to meet its own energy needs, it risks relying on the hostile regime that can weaponize the energy supply and makes it possible.
Previous administrations hampered this mission. DOE should not focus on environmental goals such as reducing carbon emissions. These objectives often contradict the strategic objectives of the department. That's what “climate change” is do not have Scientific certainty – it is an ideological construct. Sea level is rising 400 feet over the last 20,000 yearssinking ruins of countless ancient civilizations, and it was not caused by the human industry.
But the energy sector continues to throw billions to prevent the hypothetical ocean rise of just a few feet. This time it appears to have been caused by human activity. It's not just a waste. It's dangerously out of the mission. Almost 40% Of the recent DOE budget, it depends on renewable energy and carbon capture. That funding should empower the country rather than chasing climate fantasies.
That's ridiculous. America holds vast fossil fuel reserves – Innovations like hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling provide inexpensive and reliable energy. These resources make us less energised and more competitive globally. The DOE must clear its path to fossil fuel extraction and pipeline construction, starting with permits and aggressive deregulation on federal lands.
At the same time, the sector must end all expenditures on alternative energy development – Excludes the nucleus.
The free market, not the federal government, should encourage innovation. The DOE must suspend subsidies for all corners of the energy industry, which contain fossil fuels. Government handouts distort the market, block competition, and reward political ties rather than performance. Chronism, fraud, and corporate capture continue wherever subsidies go. The healthy, capitalized US energy sector does not require government benefits. We need the government to avoid getting in the way. Let the consumers decide who wins, not the bureaucrats.
To sharpen that focus, the Department of Energy must abandon all responsibility, not at the heart of its mission. Environmental policy belongs to the Environmental Protection Agency. Government-run electricity businesses such as the Tennessee Valley Bureau should be sold to private companies.
DOE does not have a business in genomics. Human genome project work must be moved elsewhere. Pentagon – not doe, you need to manage nuclear weapon stockpiles. The sector will also need to terminate subsidies for synthetic fuels like ethanol that will distort the agricultural market and raise food prices. Many of the remaining research functions should be reassigned to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Office or the National Science Foundation.
The department must also abandon its obligation to reduce performance, irritate consumers and increase costs.
It must reject the Biden administration's bloated Green New Deal agenda. It dragged the extension into a bureaucratic overreaching fantasyland. The sector must withdraw from the energy-related provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Inflation Investment and Employment Act, and related executive orders. These distractions were abolished and associated spending was quickly eliminated.
The DOE needs to know the direction the world is heading. Towards a future dominated by electricity. Electric cars are just the beginning. Rapid population growth, AI, crypto mining, robotics and automation all drive an explosive demand for electricity. For now, fossil fuels are needed to supply the grid, but that supply will be as difficult to access as a surge in demand. The DOE must plan accordingly and does not have to wander, rather than chasing the illusion of green.
Future surges in electricity demand are screaming for the modern Manhattan project. This time it is led by the Ministry of Energy. DOE should guide national efforts to fundamentally expand, modernize and harden electrical grids. The development of small-scale nuclear fission reactors must be accelerated and pushed to make fusion commercially viable.
Nuclear energy, especially fusion – Clean, powerful, virtually infinite. The private sector needs to continue optimizing fossil fuels and alternative energy technologies, but the DOE needs to create a blueprint for the future of America's energy. Regulatory obstacles that hinder meaningful progress must be clarified.
So, what should Doge do with Doe? Remove all distractions and narrow its mission to one goal. America ensures cheap, abundant and reliable energy. Everything else belongs to the chopping block.
