Former DOE Secretary Granholm’s Goodbye

“The opportunity now is to dismantle the US Department of Energy department by department, with the military nuclear functions transferred away. And the dissolution should be done in such a way as to not have the agency reappear. Reagan promised to do so but did not. Secretary Wright should do so.”

Spending other people’s money like a drunken sailor. Touting inferior energies as if they were good for consumers, investors and the environment. Creating artificial, wasteful political jobs in light of the $36 trillion deficit. And in the end, throwing gold bricks off the Titanic. In short, creating the mess that your successor has to now clean up, and hurting numerous people in the process.

But Jennifer Granholm, the former Secretary of Energy, is sad. She recently wrote on LinkedIn:

To my DOE colleagues:
Like many of you, I’ve been sick about the news of the past month. I’ve been hearing about you DOEers whom we recruited for your brilliance and expertise, those of you who moved from your home state to take your skills to the nation, those of you with young children, those of you who took large pay cuts to come into public service, those of you who saw service to our nation as a mission. So many of you tossed into the unknown.

This is all made harder because many of you have been working on critical projects like reindustrializing the nation, restoring American manufacturing jobs, building up the supply chains that our economic adversaries had stolen.

Many have been shepherding our nuclear stockpile to keep us safe as a nation. Engineers keeping our electric grid secure, economic experts protecting the nation from unfriendly foreign control over US energy companies, market professionals ensuring that US jobs were created in communities across the nation. Nuclear physicists working on new reactors. Geologists enhancing geothermal power. Water specialists designing next generation hydropower. And so many more.

Both political parties say they want these things. Instead . . .

I am so sorry. I am sorry that the incredible work you did over the past years is in jeopardy. I am sorry that your lives and jobs are in chaos. Please know that I see you. I honor you. I am utterly grateful to your service.

As are millions of others, whether they know you or not. Even though you may feel abandoned, you are not alone. We, your DOE family, are with you, rooting for you, and working on the outside to make sure that we will serve together again in this fight someday.

Speaking for the silent majority, I commented:

Shame on you for being a puppet of false climate/energy thinking and for ballooning the federal debt. Chris Wright is a breach of fresh air that you should appreciate. Social justice = the best energies.

I also attached the link of the federal Debt Clock.

Many comments were from climate activists and subsidy recipients. Well wishes back. But some made the obvious point of government gone amuck.

Carrell Polston: “I wonder where the empathy was for workers sent packing from the Keystone XL pipeline. all at the stroke of the executive. Maybe the coal miners being pushed aside. all told they just need to ….. learn to code. Lots of others out there. but only seems to reverberate when Government workers feel the pain of reductions in force.”

Ronald Sanders: “Proof Positive that a DEI Hire for the U.S. Secretary of Energy was absolutely not a good idea and the Peter Principle is still alive and well.”

Jack Dvorkin: “DOE has been politicized by you.”

Todd Dirmeyer: “Good riddance! Not missed!”

Patrick McGarry: “You told anybody associated with natural gas to go find another job and you took humor in doing so. Thanks for the reminder why we need less lawyers and more engineers in the DOE.”

Final Comment

The opportunity now is to dismantle the US Department of Energy department by department, with the military nuclear functions transferred away. And the dissolution should be done in such a way as to not have the agency reappear. Reagan promised to do so but did not. Secretary Wright should do so.

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