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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (587900)	9/28/2010 5:15:12 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

Here's some of the DOE funding....which projects would you eliminate? That's a tiny fraction of its spending. I'll answer in regards to the whole department. I'd probably keep some basic research. And the nuclear weapons spending I'd move to the DoD. I'd keep safety regulations (after re-examining all of them and tossing the bad ones, and tossing or redoing the ones that aren't cost effective. Everything else goes. No subsidies for any form of energy or fuel. That includes eliminating the loan guarantee program. What's left would be more of an agency or office rather than a full cabinet department. The basic research that is retained could also be moved elsewhere. If there is a good place to move the safety regulation, than you just close the department down rather than converting it to a smaller, less senior agency.