Please do not change your position, Mr. Chu, and fight for what you believe in.



Steven Chu



This morning I feel compelled to take up for US Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Republicans are attacking Chu for his comments to The Wall Street Journal in September of 2008, when he said, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

Not that I want to see gas prices to rise, but is it not the Republicans who say that the war on drugs and the high cost of drugs is a deterrent to using drugs. If this rationale is true than it seems to me that the high cost of gas will be a deterrent to our addiction to oil.

If I were Chu, this is what I would use as my argument. But instead, he is pedaling back from this position.

“Secretary Chu has stated repeatedly that higher gas prices are a threat to the economy and take a harmful toll on America's families,” said Energy Department spokeswoman Stephanie Mueller in a statement Tuesday. “Chu recognizes that the best way to protect Americans from high gas prices is to lower our dependence on oil – which is why we are investing in more fuel efficient cars, American biofuels, and electric vehicles that can go 300 miles,” she added.

Bottom line is that oil is bad and we are addicted. As horrible as another downturn in our economy would be because of fuel prices, it would only be temporary. The electric vehicle industry is ready for an explosive growth cycle and at the end of the process we will end up with a much sounder economy. Please do not change your position, Mr. Chu, and fight for what you believe in.

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by George Lopez

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