i think there was a good naval quote from an old podcast about how the department of defense is really the department of war, the department of health is really the department of sickness, etc

Anyone else find it strange that energy usage stopped growing in America almost right after the establishment of the Department of Energy?

It's about as strange as all the wars we got into after establishing the Defense Department. There was less fighting when it was called the War Department—ironic!

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What does the US Department of Energy actually do?

> *Anyone else find it strange that energy usage stopped growing in America almost right after the establishment of the Department of Energy?*

It's about as strange as all the wars we got into after establishing the Defense Department. There was less fighting when it was called the War Department—ironic!