In November 1975, Sen. William Proxmire gave bureaucrat Frank Zarb a Golden Fleece award for wasting energy during an energy crisis — as he was urging people not to waste energy.
Proxmire gave the award to Zarb, administrator of what was then the Federal Energy Administration. It was created in 1974 to address the 1970s energy crisis, and in 1977, merged with the Energy Research and Development Administration into the newly-created U.S. Department of Energy.
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