Steven Chu: “Ultimately going forward, solar energy is a great resource in the United States, and we need to learn to exploit that.”

President Obama has a plan for the United States to win the future by out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building the rest of the world, while at the same addressing the deficit.

We think that research, development, and demonstration of those advanced biofuels is something very much in the interest of the United States.

We believe that that ATVM loans, for example, the loans to Ford and to Nissan, saved or generated many, many thousands of jobs.

I wonder whether some of these long-term subsidies for energy, whether big oil or big wind, might be better spent for energy research.