{"id":12052,"date":"2011-11-16T17:29:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T22:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12052"},"modified":"2011-11-16T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T22:29:56","slug":"state-department-creates-energy-bureau-redundancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12052\/state-department-creates-energy-bureau-redundancy\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Creates Energy Bureau, Redundancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203503204577040503083257554.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> reports that Hillary Clinton\u2019s State Department is opening a brand new \u201cBureau of Energy Resources\u201d today.\u00a0 Amid the bureaucrat gushing about a \u201csix-fold increase in personnel,\u201d perhaps it\u2019s worth considering just how unnecessary is this new office since its mandate seems to overlap substantially with other agencies.\u00a0 Here are the &#8220;new&#8221; duties according to the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shore up stable supplies of affordable energy for the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Promote clean energy and changes in markets to make alternative-energy technology more competitive<\/li>\n<li>Manage the geopolitics of the energy world<\/li>\n<li>Unabashedly support the export of U.S. technology, working with countries to put in a level playing field so U.S. goods can compete internationally<\/li>\n<li>Direct the development of the shale gas revolution in the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you thought all of these mandates already apply to other entities, you\u2019re right.\u00a0 Someone should alert the Department of Energy, the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Commerce \u2013 as well as a host of smaller outfits known only to the industries they regulate \u2013 that yet another federal agency is open and ready to do <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">business<\/span> harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that Hillary Clinton\u2019s State Department is opening a brand new \u201cBureau of Energy Resources\u201d today.\u00a0 Amid the bureaucrat gushing about a \u201csix-fold increase in personnel,\u201d perhaps it\u2019s worth considering just how unnecessary is this new office since its mandate seems to overlap substantially with other agencies.\u00a0 Here are the &#8220;new&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1138,3194,195,118,3195],"class_list":["post-12052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bureaucracy","tag-department-of-state","tag-energy","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-redundancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12052"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12058,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052\/revisions\/12058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}