(Via Deceiver) Those wacky Inspector Generals. Always noting inconvenient truths:
Boy, the Energy Department is really having trouble practicing the energy efficiency it keeps preaching: The latest inspector general’s report found that the DOE often neglects to turn down the thermostat, wasting millions of dollars in energy every year.
The latest report found that “the Energy Department failed in many cases to use controls on heating, ventilation and air conditioning that are a primary means of conserving energy during non-working hours,” as Dow Jones Newswires put it. That could have cost the DOE more than $11 million.
Small potatoes, considering that we’re facing the wasting of trillions of dollars every year, for the forseeable future? Sure. Could the Department of Energy been even worse? Undoubtedly. Is it still obnoxious that, yet again, a government agency isn’t doing itself what it’s delighting in telling us to do? Ya, you betcha.
Moe Lane
*I swear that this popped into my head before I saw the WSJ title.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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After 31 years in the oil business, I can't tell you precisely what it is the Dept. of Energy does.
Steve Maley (Diary) Monday, July 27th at 4:12PM EST (link)Federal lands are managed and regulated by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Minerals Management Service (MMS) of the Dept. of the Interior, not Energy.
I know that DOE regulates the nuke industry as the successor to the old Atomic Energy Commission.
DOE spreads some dough around for research.
The Energy Information Agency (www.eia.doe.gov) complies a boatload of statistics that I use from time to time in my blogging.
And industry used to have to compile & report its Texas Panhandle, W. Okla & W. Kansas gas reserves to the National Helium Reserve, but I think they got out of that business.
The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
Correction, Vladimir
Xasteius (Diary) Monday, July 27th at 5:41PM EST (link)The NRC regulates the nuclear industry (well, the DOE has separate regs that apply to its own facilities inaddition to the NRC standards . The DOE seems to be in charge of the spent fuel, and like you said “Spreads some dough around for research.” Otherwise, I’m just as stumped as you are.
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So NRC is independent of DOE, huh?
Steve Maley (Diary) Monday, July 27th at 6:22PM EST (link)Goes to show you, you learn something every day. Unless you’re a Democrat.
Well, in that case, DOE does even less than I thought.
The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
Your comment got me curious, so I actually had to go to their website.
Xasteius (Diary) Monday, July 27th at 6:37PM EST (link)They also are in charge of the non-proliferation aspects of the nuclear industry, and the environmental aspects (i.e. cleanup and prevention).
Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
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