Obama Selects Nobel Laureate As Energy Secretary

Here's a novel idea...put someone into a government position who actually knows something about the area he or she is in charge of! What a concept!

That is just what it looks like President Elect Obama is going to do in the Department of Energy. Instead of an oilman or industry type who will have no interest but that of the energy businesses at heart he looks to pick Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

Wow! Science may be making a comeback, and just in time, too.

From the Houston Chronicle:

Obama also is poised to select Lisa Jackson to head the Environmental Protection Agency, while one-time EPA administrator Carol Browner would serve in the White House as an overall energy "czar." Jackson worked at the EPA during Browner's tenure, and is former administrator of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

The selection of a scientist rather than a Washington insider as energy secretary suggests that in the Obama administration, energy policy will be directed out of the White House rather than the Energy Department.