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[[Image:SecretaryChu.jpg|right|thumb|150px| Secretary of Energy Steven Chu]]

[[Image:SecretaryChu.jpg|right|thumb|150px| Secretary of Energy Steven Chu]]

'''Steven Chu''' (b. 1948; - ) born in St. Louis, [[Missouri]], he is a 1997 co-Nobel Prize-winning physicist, former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and [[Barack Hussein Obama]]'s Energy Secretary. Chu is known for his global warming alarmism. Chu said, "Coal is My Worst Nightmare." <ref>http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/12/11/steven-chu-coal-is-my-worst-nightmare/</ref>

'''Steven Chu''' (b. 1948; - ) born in St. Louis, [[Missouri]], he is a 1997 Nobel Prize-winning physicist, former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and [[Barack Hussein Obama]]'s Energy Secretary. Chu is known for his global warming alarmism. Chu said, "Coal is My Worst Nightmare." <ref>http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/12/11/steven-chu-coal-is-my-worst-nightmare/</ref>

==Views on Energy and Transportation==

==Views on Energy and Transportation==

In October 2008, before Obama was elected, Chu spoke truthfully about how uneconomical battery-powered cars are. Chu said, "Current batteries for hybrid and electric cars last just five to six years, take a car only 40 miles on a charge—and cost $10,000. These aren’t going to sweep the market." <ref>http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37422/title/U.S._must_invest_in_technologies_to_avoid_energy_crisis</ref>

In October 2008, before Obama was elected, Chu spoke about how uneconomical battery-powered cars are. Chu said, "Current batteries for hybrid and electric cars last just five to six years, take a car only 40 miles on a charge—and cost $10,000. These aren’t going to sweep the market." <ref>http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37422/title/U.S._must_invest_in_technologies_to_avoid_energy_crisis</ref>  

In spite of Chu's cirtical statements about electric car technology, Tesla motors, makers of a $109,000 two-seat sports car that has only sold a few hundred units, will receive $350 millions of dollars of federal loan money. <ref>http://www.gearlog.com/2009/02/tesla_motors_to_receive_350_mi.php</ref>

After becoming Secretary of Energy, Chu was asked by reporters about OPEC output levels. Chu responded that the issue was, "not in my domain." <ref>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/02/20/1803006.aspx</ref>

Chu has called for gradually ramping up gasoline taxes over 15 years to coax consumers into buying more-efficient cars and living in neighborhoods closer to work. "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," he said before becoming Secretary of Energy. <ref>see [http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB122904040307499791.html ''WJS'' Dec. 12, 2008]</ref>  

==Career==

 

==Additional Credentials==

* 1970 graduate in mathematics and physics from the University of Rochester

* 1970 graduate in mathematics and physics from the University of Rochester

* He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley

* He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley

* Professor of physics, and of molecular and cell biology at University of California, Berkeley

* Professor of physics, and of molecular and cell biology at University of California, Berkeley

* Worked at AT&T's Bell Labs in the 1980's <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7784969.stm Profile: Steven Chu] BBC, December 16, 2008</ref>

* Worked at AT&T's Bell Labs in the 1980s <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7784969.stm Profile: Steven Chu] BBC, December 16, 2008</ref>

 

==Associations & Beliefs==

==Associations & Beliefs==

* "The world needs a "revolution" in science and technology to solve global warming" <ref>[http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=steven-chu-calls-for-alt-energy-rev-2009-02-12 Steven Chu calls for alt-energy "revolution"] Scientific American February 12, 2009</ref>

* "The world needs a "revolution" in science and technology to solve global warming" <ref>[http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=steven-chu-calls-for-alt-energy-rev-2009-02-12 Steven Chu calls for alt-energy "revolution"] Scientific American February 12, 2009</ref>

* "a price must be put on carbon "without loopholes"

* "a price must be put on carbon "without loopholes"

* "The Golden State could become a desert wasteland, with no more winter salad greens from its parched Central Valley or wines from its withered Napa-Sonoma vineyards, before this century ends unless America takes drastic steps to slow global warming"

* "The Golden State could become a desert wasteland, with no more winter salad greens from its parched Central Valley or wines from its withered Napa-Sonoma vineyards, before this century ends unless America takes drastic steps to slow global warming"

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