Chris0nllyn
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/rick-perry-energy-secretary-trump.html?_r=1President-elect Donald J. Trump plans to name Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas, to lead the Energy Department, an agency far more devoted to national security and basic science than to the extraction of fossil fuels that is Mr. Perry’s expertise.
The DoE was one of the three agencies Perry forgot he wanted to eliminate in the 2011 debate.
[video=youtube;0uvmKnFY4uk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uvmKnFY4uk[/video]
While I seriously doubt Perry would shut down the agency he's soon-to-be running, 60% of DoE's budget goes to overseeing the USA's nuclear weapon stockpile so one could wonder if Perry would roll back Obama's moratorium to finish the Yucca Mountain nuke waste facility. 30% of its budget goes to subsidies, so it'd be nice to see some of that rolled back. It'd also be nice to see him rollback some of the appliance energy standards the DoE is trying to ram through before Obama leaves office.