Should the federal Department of Energy be abolished?

[Blue Rectangle]

what the hell does the dept. of energy do

Bungle security at Los Alamos, mostly...Oh, and they write lots of reports and put them online so you can see how much oil we import from each country.

And a few years ago they helped negotiate one of the worst treaties in modern U.S. history: the one with the North Koreans where we paid them to screw us.

[Blue Rectangle]

Opebo has it backwards. He thinks government came first, and private property second.

All government is just force, Philip.  Your caveman clan couldn't have laid claim to its cave without being read to smash in the heads of all the other neanderthals.   Property by definition requires force.

Yes, all government action is the use of force.  That leads to the question, is it justifiable use of force to impose an energy policy on the public?