Last Monday I notes that Politico reported Energy Secretary Steven Chu intends to stay. In a Platts Energy Week interview broadcast yesterday, Chu said that he will stay “as long as the president will have me” and “as long as I think I’m doing good things, as long as I see progress.”
Here’s the video of the interview, where Chu also talks about the nuclear loan guarantee program and what to do about the possibility of an oil price sprike:
This is good news, as I said last week. Yes, the job of Energy Secretary is exceedingly difficult, and all the more so in the last year because of the BP oil disaster, which took up much of Chu’s time. And I don’t envy his having to testify endlessly in front of a GOP House hostile to clean energy and science.
But Chu would be very hard to replace: He remains a strong internal and external (public) advocate for energy efficiency and clean energy “” and climate action “” in an administration that appears woefully short of Climate Hawks.
h/t Morning Energy
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Obama’s Nobel Prize should have gone to Steven Chu.
Secondly, Jim Hansen should replace John Holdren, who has been largely ineffective and a lightning rod for criticism.
One thing that has always remained strong in the collapsing and corrupt corporotocracy of America is to count on energy secretaries to say the most foolhardy things. Dr. Chu does not disappoint. His assertions that “oil is a great transportation fuel” and that we need to “speed the process” for handing out taxpayer loan guarantees to corporate socialized, physically collapsing, decades dead, uneconomical, disease agent, national and international security threats of atomic fission ideologues are classic. How many bankruptcies like WPPSS (Washington State Public Power Supply System) and electric utility nuclear bankruptcy restructurings of the 1990′s does it take to learn? Or is he just part of the “good ole boy” banksters fix for their fossil burning?
Does the secretary know that petroleum is a fossil liquid, which decades of observation and analysis on climate and national security indicates should be rapidly phased out as a fuel (if America wants to have even a chance of survival)?