Energy Secretary Chu Says U.S. Must Decrease Energy Use

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[thackney]

U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday that the U.S. must decrease its energy use to allow developing nations the room to grow, while emphasizing that prosperity doesn't have to come with a large carbon footprint.

"We believe we have to decrease our use of energy to allow headroom for the developing nations to grow their economies," Chu said in a speech in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.

"There is no law of physics that says prosperity is proportional to carbon emissions," Chu said.

[egannacht]

F*ck Chu

[Titus-Maximus]

We already have, it’s called a recession!

[Chi-townChief]

“We believe we have to decrease our use of energy to allow headroom for the developing nations to grow their economies”

Any idea what this clown thinks he’s trying to say?

[NeoCaveman]

Maybe recession isn’t good enough for this tool, maybe he wants depression.

[johniegrad]

Jimmy Chu Carter.

[dirtboy]

U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday that the U.S. must decrease its energy use to allow developing nations the room to grow,

So Americans need to scale back their lifestyles so that others can live large.

The GOP should be able to ride this one statement to victory in 2012.

[American Quilter]

U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday that the U.S. must decrease its energy use to allow developing nations the room to grow

Good. I propose that all energy to his home and office be cut off, and all of his vehicles deactivated.

[thackney]

We need to help China achieve their full potential.

[Texas resident]

chu is just another nut.
ozero told us that we would know who is by the people he surrounds himself with.
He doesn’t have one person near him that has any sense.

[hometoroost]

Is there one rational person in this administration? I cannot think of any.

[Kansas58]

“Screw the USA, we owe our loyalty to the Communist and Muslim 3rd World”

That is what he is trying to say!

[LibLieSlayer]

FUchu!

LLS

[PhilosopherStone1000]

“There is no law of physics that says prosperity is proportional to carbon emissions,”

No, but there is a law of economics that says that prosperity is proportional to available energy.

What a clown.

[updatedscreenname]

He is trying to say that China has used our dollars to secure their energy future. Now the US is going to experience downgraded lifestyle expectations. Future US generations will not be better off than past generations because energy will cost more and they will have higher taxes to repay the debt.

[ßuddaßudd]

It’s all the non-productive illegal immigrants who sit at home all day consuming energy and resources....

[Army Air Corps]

PING

[LibLieSlayer]

This b!tch thinks America should be a turd world nation so zimbabwe will be slightly less of a hell hole.

LLS

[Sprite518]

Chu is a control freak and full of it. Only someone in government would truly believe this nonsense.

[kabar]

We are going to add 130 million more people in the next 40 years, 75% due to immigration. How are we going to decrease our use of energy?

[Campion]

Now the US is going to experience downgraded lifestyle expectations.

Objectively speaking, that's the real goal of this administration. A much poorer, less powerful, less comfortable, less happy, less secure America.

they will have higher taxes to repay the debt

Hard to tax people who aren't employed.

[Salvey]

I’d better lay in a good supply of candles.

[GeronL]

Less energy, less wealth, less prosperity, less freedom

[El Cid]

Any idea what this clown thinks he’s trying to say?

Yeah, just repeating the 'Spread the Wealth' commie mantra... Somehow they think impoverishing our nation will make other nations wealthier.

(A) If that were so, that isn't a good thing - our elected officials should promote the well-being of the Nation they were elected to serve,

And

(B) It isn't so. Reaganomics showed that the best way to increase everyone's prosperity is to allow everyone's prosperity to increase... Hammering down one segment (i.e., 'the wealthy' ... otherwise defined as: 'anyone who makes more than you do') just increases the misery across the board...

These commies don't get it; and they are a menace to our Nation.

[Antoninus]

Ah yes. Growth through shrinkage.

These people truly are morons.

[GeronL]

He wants us all poorer.

Same guy who proposed painting all roofs black to stop global warming.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"There is no law of physics that says prosperity is proportional to carbon emissions," Chu said.

Well no, there isn't. There's a pretty clear economic correlation, however, and prosperity is based on economic considerations, not compliance with the laws of physics. There's also no law of physics that says we can't build hundreds of nuclear reactors to take care of our nation's energy needs far into the future with minimal carbon emission - why exactly do we need to curb our energy usage?

[truthguy]

Chu serves as an example that you can win a Nobel Prize(in a very esoteric area) and still be dumb as a box of rocks. Anyone who knew Linus Pauling could have told you that.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Funee Kat]

“This is Ning. You can help him reach his full potential by riding your bicycle to work, or you can turn the page.”

[Jack Hydrazine]

All nations must get rid of their cars, airplanes, trains, and other forms of transportation and roads, all forms of energy generation, tear down all the buildings and only live in grass huts. That’s the green way!

You must reduce your standard of living until you end up as a Turd World Nation. It’s all a part of making all nations ‘equal.’

[silverleaf]

We’ll use “less energy” to give the 3rd world the headroom to grow?

I believe I’ll go take a nap now. Wouldn’t want to use up energy *working* or *creating wealth* or anything like that

[silverleaf]

excellent

[Jack Hydrazine]

Africa actually has the highest CO2 emissions in the world. Why isn’t he telling the Africans to shut it down?

[ColdWater]

"There is no law of physics that says prosperity is proportional to carbon emissions," Chu said.

Dumb statement. There is also no law of physics that says democrats may hold high government positions.

[AmishDude]

Pfft. Experimental physics. He was a monkey at a typewriter.

I’d like to see him propose shutting down the superconducting supercollider to save energy. See how his physics buddies react to that.

[Deagle]

Did not know that energy was a zero sum game...

[meadsjn]

"We believe we have to decrease our use of energy to allow headroom for the developing nations to grow their economies," Chu said in a speech in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.

This whole administration is anti-American commies.

Let's replace them all with slightly less anti-American RINO commie-Lites.

[Kozak]

"There is no law of physics that says prosperity is proportional to carbon emissions," Chu said.

There is a law of economics that states just that however.

[rlmorel]

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Skru Chu

[gogeo]

"There is no law of physics that says prosperity is proportional to carbon emissions," Chu said...

Then why do developing countires need more energy to grow?

I'll wait...

[henkster]

Rationing. Just like with transportation, income, credit, education, housing, health care.

It’s all about control through rationing.

[combat_boots]

How much Natgas, Coal, Oil, Oil shale/sands do we have? How do you ‘help’ or ‘make room’ for others by lowering yourself to ‘other’ standards’?

Compare Cary Grant’s line from some 1950s movie..... (paraphrase) We do not raise standards of living of other countries by lowering ours, but, rather, by encouraging the other countries’ standards to rise to ours.

[reagan_fanatic]

Who would be stupid enough to believe this nonsense?

Ahh, Chu.

[Uncle Miltie]

"decrease its energy use to allow developing nations the room to grow"

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Commies.

[piytar]

“the U.S. must decrease its energy use to allow developing nations the room to grow”

Utterly ignorant zero-sum marxist “thinking.” If the US scales back, we won’t be able to contribute to those developing nations and they will stagnate. Oh, wait, that’s already happening.

What a moron.

[piytar]

“Objectively speaking, that’s the real goal of this administration. A much poorer, less powerful, less comfortable, less happy, less secure America”

Yup, and may I add “that is easier to RULE over.”

[RinaseaofDs]

What collection of idiots decided this guy deserved his PhD?

This man’s philosophy is the epitome of liberalism - instead of coming up with a way to reduce the cost and increase the availability of energy, Chu’s solution is to impose limitations on the very people who would likely solve his problem.

Is it 2012 yet?

[piytar]

“These commies don’t get it; and they are a menace to our Nation.”

Some, mostly donk voters, don’t get it, but wannabe dictators entirely get it. General prosperity is a obstacle to seizing total power, both because people can’t be scared into it and because prosperous people have better options for resistance (e.g., forming TEA party movements).