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Budget
[edit]The budget section here is significantly outdated and I question the value of even including it without updates. I'm a DOE employee and so won't make updates. The latest DOE budget proposal can be found at https://energy.gov/cj (where CJ stands for congressional justification), which will redirect to a page specific to the fiscal year of the most recent budget. Prior year budgets can be found by just changing the fiscal year in the URL that the CJ link redirects to. Within the budget page, the Budget in Brief file presents an overview of the Department's budget, with both tables and (relatively) short narratives. Other files on the site go into more detail.
The last paragraph in the budget section starts out saying "In March 2018, Energy Secretary Rick Perry testified to a Senate panel" and later has some quoted text that seems to me to imply it is quoting something Perry said at the hearing, but looking at the citation, the quote is from the article's summary of the budget request and not from Perry (and to my mind, it is at best a poorly written summary, since starting a new office is not, in itself, an innovation). I think showing it as a quote is misleading. The hearing transcript is at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115shrg29771/pdf/CHRG-115shrg29771.pdf, if anyone wanted to confirm whether Perry did say it. —Salton Finneger (talk) 19:43, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Delete subsection Recent from History?
[edit]It's not really noteworthy. Various secretaries have had similar "controversies", most of which are not mentioned. See for example, Hazel R. O'Leary. I don't think we need this page to become a dumping ground for every trivial issue. The report about discouraged words is unsurprising for that administration. Let's move on. Seananony (talk) 19:36, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
Suggestion to add section on Federal Energy Office
[edit]I just discovered to my surprise that the short-lived U.S. Federal Energy Office ("FEO"), progenitor to the U.S. Department of Energy, has neither a Wiki entry nor a section within the Department of Energy entry. Because it only existed from December 4, 1973 to June 1974, when it became the Federal Energy Administration, I think it should be a section within the DOE entry rather than an entry in its own right.
The FEO was created within the Executive Office of the President of Richard Nixon by Executive Order 11748 effective December 4, 1973. It was created to deal with the crisis of the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, which exposed the fact that the U.S. Government had no central data base showing what petroleum stocks the country had, what kind of stocks it had, or where they were located. To my mind, the critical service it provided was the creation of that data base, and the ability to interactively access it through computer timesharing, which was still in its infancy. That task fell to me. Navy Commander Dr. Jan Prokop was the technical head of the project. Bill Simon was head of FEO. In June 1974 FEO morphed into the Federal Energy Administration. The following is a history section that could be the first draft of an FEO section in the current Department of Energy ("DOE") Wiki entry. It comes from an article at the DOE web site.
"On December 4, 1973, the President created the Federal Energy Office in the Executive Office of the President to coordinate American efforts to cope with the oil embargo and to allocate precious supplies of crude oil and refined petroleum products. Also charged with controlling oil and gasoline prices, the Federal Energy Office quickly responded to the crisis, serving as the focal point for federal emergency actions. In January 1974, the office established a fuel allocation program covering propane, butane, motor gasoline, residual fuel oil, aviation fuels, crude oil and refinery yield, lubricants, petrochemical feedstocks, and middle distillates. Because information on United States oil reserves, secondary stocks, and energy consumption was incomplete, the office constructed a plan for gathering energy data. The office also assumed responsibility for implementing President Nixon's proposal for “Project Independence.” Dividing the staff into several task forces, the Federal Energy Office launched a crash effort to increase American energy supplies while instituting long-term planning for preventing another oil embargo."WRossScott (talk) 04:45, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Ross ScottWRossScott (talk) 04:45, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Cite error: There are<ref>
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