Washington Post blogger ignores Department of Energy's complete failure to reduce our dependence on foreign oil

[Washington Post blog: You know what we really need right now?  A massive *new* government program to do what the *current* massive government program has completely failed to do over the last 33 years]

[Dylan Matthews] Cap-and-trade would reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change while reducing our dependence on oil from unsavory regimes.

Note: The US government has already spent (and is still spending) an absolutely enormous amount of money on "clean" energy

United States Department of Energy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Employees 16,000 federal (2009)
93,094 contract (2008)
Annual budget $24.1 billion (2009)
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The Department of Energy was formed after the oil crisis on August 4, 1977 in order to end the United States dependence on foreign oil by President Jimmy Carter's signing of legislation...

Increasing USA Foreign Oil Dependence In The Last 40 years

President Gerald Ford (in 1975 with 36.1% of oil from foreign sources): “We must reduce oil imports by one million barrels per day by the end of this year and by two million barrels per day by the end of 1977.”

President Jimmy Carter (1979, 40.5%): “Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 – never.”

President Ronald Reagan (1981, 43.6%): “While conservation is worthy in itself, the best answer is to try to make us independent of outside sources to the greatest extent possible for our energy.”

President George Bush (1992, 47.2%): “When our administration developed our national energy strategy, three principles guided our policy: reducing our dependence on foreign oil…”

President Bill Clinton (1995, 49.8%): “The nation’s growing reliance on imports of oil… threatens the nation’s security… [we] will continue efforts to…enhance domestic energy production.”

President George W. Bush (2006, 65.5%): “Breakthroughs…will help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025.”

President Barack Obama (2009, 66.2%) “It will be the policy of my administration to reverse our dependence on foreign oil while building a new energy economy that will create millions of jobs.”