Jimmuh Carter - now only the 2nd worst president in history - the gift that keeps on giving....
As president, Carter created two new cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology.
On January 7, 1980, Carter signed Law H.R. 5860 aka Public Law 96-185 known as The Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979 bailing out Chrysler Corporation. He led the plan to deregulate the airline industry. He canceled military pay raises.
The DoE was created to lower our dependence on foreign oil, but today we use 45% more than when Carter started it.
DoE’s 15,000 workers “need” $24 billion a year to complete its mystery assignment, yet it gives us nothing in return.
Carter’s worst damage is the DoE. It never produced anything but wasted the time and money needed to achieve American energy independent.
From the day it started, DoE has always been a bureaucrat’s affirmative action dream. Its first Secretary was the first Republican appointed by a Democrat. From there it was headed by a series of “the firsts.” There was the first Black female and the first Asian male at its helm. It has never produced anything that could not have been provided by a small office in a government office building’s basement.