  Using the symmetric energy-momentum complexes of Landau and Lifshitz,
Papapetrou, and Weinberg we obtain the energy of the universe in anisotropic
Bianchi type I cosmological models . The energy (due to matter plus field) is
found to be zero and this agrees with a previous result of Banerjee and Sen who
investigated this problem using the Einstein energy-momentum complex. Our
result supports the importance of the energy-momentum complexes and contradicts
the prevailing ``folklore'' that different energy-momentum complexes could give
different and hence unacceptable energy distribution in a given space-time. The
result that the total energy of the universe in these models is zero supports
the viewpoint of Tryon. Rosen computed the total energy of the closed
homogeneous isotropic universe and found that to be zero, which agrees with the
studies of Tryon.
