Steven Chu: “I hope that, in notable contrast to your predecessors, you will commit as Secretary to turn the page on years of broken…”

If I look at other countries and how they are borrowing from our playbook--we have a long history of funding our research and development through our national labs, through our universities, and even in some companies.

The United States faces a choice today. Will we outcompete the rest of the world or will we fall behind?

investments in the science and research and the development of these things is going to be crucial to our economic prosperity going forward.

I think domestic production should be part of a coherent plan going forward in what we need to do with our transportation fuel.