US Energy Policy

Open Email to Sen. Cruz (TX):

Dear Sen. Cruz,
I have read your form letter on US energy policy.
You are concerned that the Senate recently considered a bill introduced by Senator Shaheen and Senator Portman, which proposed to advance energy efficiency through increased government intervention and subsidies. You say that greater government involvement only risks corporate cronyism, wasteful spending, and weaker economic growth. Instead, we should be reducing, not expanding, federal interference in the energy sector.
While I agree with what you say, it does not really address the matter of US Energy Policy, which should be to promote obtaining economic sources of energy and using such energy in a reasonable environmental manner.
Congresses previously tried to address this problem with the setting up of a Department of Energy. It was presumably done on the presumption that its control by the President would be advantageous to the development of economic energy sources. Instead, this has backfired, and the Energy Department does more to inhibit availability of economic energy. In addition, it wastes a tremendous amount of money on the development of uneconomic sources. On that basis, I have previously suggested elimination of the Department of Energy and stricter controls on the Environmental Protection Agency.
I still continue with those two suggestions and add that as Congress passes additional laws, which puts the President in charge of operations, it should not assume that the president will conduct those operations in a manner consistent with Congress' original intentions.