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Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ..... during the Carter Administration? Bottom line . . we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency ... the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember. It was very simple * ... and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate. The Departm…