Steven Chu Changes Mind About Wanting High Gas Prices

Hmm…

Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Tuesday disavowed his 2008 comments about increasing gas prices to European levels, remarks that Republicans have pounced on in recent weeks.

"I no longer share that view," Chu said during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, adding that he wants to lower gas prices.

Wait, he not only doesn't want higher gas prices, but he actually wants to see them decrease? This guy's got to learn to play it safer, politically speaking. Next thing you know he'll come out and formally condemn al-Qaeda, or declare that he finds cake delicious, or… actually, those two things are basically all that Americans can agree on right now.

The real question is what could have made Chu think higher gas prices would be good in the first place…

Chu… told The Wall Street Journal in late 2008, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," and said he supported gradually increasing gasoline taxes over 15 years to coax consumers into buying more efficient cars.

Using tax incentives to help preserve our position in the delicate global ecosystem while lessening our dependence on physically and politically volatile energy sources?

He should just resign now.

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Tags: Economy, Energy & Oil, Obama Administration, Steven Chu

Quote Unquote: Of Nobel Prizes

Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama introducing U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven to an audience of students earlier today…

"He actually deserved his Nobel Prize."

That is all.

Tags: Barack Obama, Nobel Prize, Quote Unquote, Steven Chu

The Daily Show: Joe Barton's on the Cover of Disdainful A**hole Digest

I'm pretty sure this isn't Barton's first time on the cover of his favorite magazine. Like, wasn't he on there around the time of this exchange with Steven Chu? (Memories… sigh…) This time, however, he's the centerfold! And I hear we get the full disdainful a**hole…

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Tags: BP, Corporations, Energy & Oil, Environment, House of Representatives, Joe Barton, Science & Technology, Steven Chu, Tony Hayward, Video, White House

Jon Stewart Blasts Cap and Trade

On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart covered the new cap and trade bill with a face-full of pie, a graphic of a man being sodomized by a donkey and an interview with Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Which is weird, because that's exactly how Jim Lehrer covered it too.

Discussion of the cap and trade bill continues after the jump.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

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Tags: Energy & Oil, House of Representatives, Jon Stewart, Steven Chu, The Daily Show, Video

Rep. Joe Barton Is, Like, Super Smart at Science-Type Stuff and Junk

Remember last month with Rep. Joe Barton beat the shit out of Energy Secretary Stephen Chu using only his brains and his good 'ol Texan horse sense?

Well, he's at it again. But this time, his brains are getting all kinds of crazy all over all scientific thought regarding this whole Global Warming hoax.

Get a load of these mind bombs he's dropping…

"I would also point out that CO2, carbon dioxide, is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term… I am creating it as I talk to you. It's in your Coca-Cola, you’re Dr. Pepper, your Perrier water.

Oh my God! Get it out! Get it out! Ah, I can feel it in my lungs and my veins! Aaaaahhhh!!!

"And something that the Democrat sponsors do not point out, a lot of the CO2 that is created in the United States is naturally created. You can't regulate God. Not even the Democratic majority in the US Congress can regulate God."

Damn! Why did that guy deny the world his amazing mental powers by not becoming a real deal scientist or some shit?

We could be eating diesel-fueled steak  and driving around in cars made out of battery acid and stuff.

Tags: Climate Change, House of Representatives, Joe Barton, Science & Technology, Steven Chu, Texas