Sarcasm doesn't work over the internet I guess Dave.

I wasn't pulling your wires, just coming at it from the government point of view. Which, as you pointed out, is asinine.

As the saying goes, "If it doesn't make sense it makes dollars".

Anyone who has taken a science class knows energy is the capacity to do work and that the transfer of a unit of energy from one form to another is how work is done. There are other definitions though and the one that is employed by government is, "the capacity for vigorous activity". No work is done, but there is certainly a lot of movement.