Depressing Energy Graph

Daily Kos has a graph of US Energy R&D Investments vs the Iraq War. It's really long. So long you have to click the link, I won't include it here.

"The really awful thing? That graph doesn't even cover the most recent request for additional funds in Iraq. The really important thing? Small increases in those little bars at the bottom may be the best action we can take to make sure that one of those giant bars never happens again. The really irritating thing? Did you notice that, even when you get down to the tiny amount being put into energy research, more of it is going into coal than anywhere else?"

FYI, there are other really interesting energy graphs in the Annual Energy Review from the Energy Information Administration. Things like this: