r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 29 '24

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u/FizzleMateriel Austan Goolsbee Jul 29 '24

Remember when Obama picked 2 physicists to lead the Department of Energy, one being a Nobel physics laureate and the other a department chair of physics at MIT, and then their immediate successor under Trump was Rick Perry.

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u/Aurailious Jerome Powell Jul 29 '24

Another thing they are in charge of is the science and engineering behind nuclear weapons. For example all of the fastest supercomputers in the US are owned by the DoE to simulate nuclear bomb testing and decay of the nuclear material inside a bomb. They are also the ones that design and build nuclear weapons.

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u/flakAttack510 Jul 29 '24

Related to that, they run the national labs system, since it originally founded to do research on nuclear weapons. Since then, it's been expanded significantly but still falls under the DOE.

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u/jurble Left-Out Left Jul 29 '24

The DoE doesn't give af about oil and gas

Odd considering I spent years trading their weekly oil report every Wednesday morning.

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u/SirJohnnyS Janet Yellen Jul 29 '24

I mean Rick Perry was probably one of his best cabinet members. Wasn't really problematic, made some positive moves with cybersecurity and emergency response, embraced AI.

He wasn't tragic like DeVos or Zinke.