Steven Chu: "Yes, we can!" BP: "No, we can't!"

I tend to defer to nobel prize-winners, as they are almost always smarter than me. Steven Chu, secretary of energy under the Obama administration, is very highly regarded as a scientist, and I was very highly excited to finally get some qualified people making decisions about our national energy policy.

So I'm glad to see that he's written a very upbeat and accessible, if not somewhat vague and rosy article in Newsweek.

Meanwhile, BP is slashing jobs from it's solar power business, because (???) they're not making enough money selling oil. It seems maybe you'd want to be investing in the future of the energy business as the past (oil) seems to be getting a little shaky, but what do I know?

I do hope those biomass fuels and electric cars get here soon, cause I'm reading more and more that makes me thing gas is going to be awfully expensive later this year.