DeSmog
Aug 7, 2019 @ 13:01
A scheme to abolish the Department of Energy (DOE) helped spur a failed 1980 Libertarian Party presidential bid and in the process laid the groundwork for Charles and David Koch’s powerful network of influence as documents from a newly published archive show.
The documents in the new KochDocs.org archive include a relatively little-noticed column penned by fossil fuel industrialist Charles Koch for the Libertarian Review in August 1977, in which Charles, who had served as a member of President Carter’s energy task force in 1976, argued against Carter’s energy policy, writing that the “only ‘certainty’ to be associated with governmental planning is that it will not work, will tend to produce results opposite to those intended, and will doom any substantial private long-range planning in energy development.”