President Obama recently released his budget blueprint, “The New Era of Responsibility,” which outlines his spending plans for Fiscal Year 2010 and beyond. Aside from providing general levels of federal spending, the blueprint foreshadows much of the President's policy agenda. The budgets for the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of the Interior (DOI), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reveal that the President has a costly and economically harmful vision for energy policy.