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| − | 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 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 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, may received hundreds of millions of dollars of federal bailout money. <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30digi.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/E/Electric%20Vehicles</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> | 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> | ||
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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." [1]
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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." [2] 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, may received hundreds of millions of dollars of federal bailout money. [3]
After becoming Secretary of Energy, Chu was asked by reporters about OPEC output levels. Chu responded that the issue was, "not in my domain." [4]
Chu wants 15 years of increases on the gas tax. [5] Chu said, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe".
Additional Credentials
- 1970 graduate in mathematics and physics from the University of Rochester
- He earned his PhD at the 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 [6]
Like most global warming doomsayers (such as Al Gore), Chu has no degree in atmospheric sciences, meteorology, or climatology.
Associations & Beliefs
- Member of Copenhagen Climate Council: a private collaboration between science and business to promote a 2009 UN global warming projects.
- Member of Project Steve: which advocates the teaching of Darwinian evolution [7]
- Is against nuclear power
Quotes
- "The world needs a "revolution" in science and technology to solve global warming" [8]
- "a price must be put on carbon "without loopholes"
- As an adviser to president-elect Barack Hussein Obama, a Jan. 17, 2008 statement was crafted to the San Francisco Chronicle that Obama planned pollution taxes that would “bankrupt” anyone who tried to build a coal-powered plant.
- "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"
References
- ↑ http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/12/11/steven-chu-coal-is-my-worst-nightmare/
- ↑ http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37422/title/U.S._must_invest_in_technologies_to_avoid_energy_crisis
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30digi.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/E/Electric%20Vehicles
- ↑ http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/02/20/1803006.aspx
- ↑ http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB122904040307499791.html
- ↑ Profile: Steven Chu BBC, December 16, 2008
- ↑ California Weather Exposes Fiction of Global Warming NewsMax, February 14, 2009
- ↑ Steven Chu calls for alt-energy "revolution" Scientific American February 12, 2009
