Close the AARP-E Program of the DOE

We have some bad news and good news on the energy research and development front.
The bad news is that the the Department of Energy five years ago set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E) as a separate section to promote the development of solar power, energy storage, transportation, energy efficiency, and more.These are good items for study, but the old bad news is that it is being done by government, rather than private industry. There is nothing in our Constitution which requires or even allows the federal government to be involved in commercial operations, even on a research and development scale, unless it applies directly to the nation's security.
The good news is that while the Obama Administration has been trying to kill use of fossil fuels in an effort to promote green energy, the latest AARP-E fair near Washington DC did not show this.. One stand included a project for powering passenger vehicles with natural gas. One of the four technology discussions by ARPA-E program directors was actually about natural gas production. Another involved the use of carbon dioxide in unconventional oil drilling.
While the Washington fair showed some favorable aspects of a more open mind on the part of AARP-E directors, I still want the government out. We have a well developed energy industry in this country that can well handle the establishment of various fairs to show off new technologies from an unbiased point of view, other than profit. This is where it should be.
I call on Congress to close down the AARP-E program. I want energy industry leaders to have a full opportunity to promote their products, without encumbrance by the federal government.