Department of Energy in Podcasts

Back at the Times, we got our hands on a confidential Department of Energy assessment that found that as a country, we could have only afforded three or four more days of downtime before that attack brought the entire U.S. economy to its knees. It wasn't so much the gas or jet fuel. We had the reserves for those. It was the diesel required to run our factories.

The only thing I know of that's big enough is the energy market. So the energy market in the U.S., according to Grok, is about over $1.55 trillion per year. That would include electricity, oil, natural gas, renewables, etc. Now, I don't have an idea of how to use the fact that that's a gigantic market to reduce our deficit. But there's only one thing that's gigantic besides the deficit.