Not to put to fine a point on it, but an Adult is in charge of Washington right now. You may not remember, but I was not a big Obama fan during the primaries. But I am a fan now.
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If for nothing else (and there is plenty else) I would like to STAND UP AND APPLAUD his choice for Secretary of Energy. Steven Chu who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics and now directs the government's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, will head the Energy Department.
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You know who are current Secretary of Energy is? No. Really. The price of gas went from less than $1.75 to over $4.00 a gallon this year - don't you remember him speaking about it. Oh no, he didn't. We are critically dependent on foreign oil, and the biggest supplier to us is Venezuela - who hates us by the way. Don't you remember Secretary Samuel Bodman speaking out about this. No. Maybe that is because Samuel Bodman came from an investment group.
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The Secretary of Energy before that was Spencer Abraham. He was a layer from Harvard who was the head of the Michigan Republican party and then a Senator from Michigan. Where he constantly headed the drive towards alternative energy for automobiles..... Nah! I'm shitting you. He lead the successful efforts to had off any upgrades to fuel economy standards and was in the pocket of SUV loving car companies. They could use him now!
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So now we have a Nobel Prize winning physicist from a University of California lab as Energy Secretary.
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Yeah for the Adults.