Department of Energy - Secretary Chu
Chu (center) with cycling colleagues at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Q: Is it true you don’t drive a car?
A: My wife does, but I no longer own a car. Let me just say that in most of my jobs, I mostly rode my bicycle.
Q: And now?
A: My security detail didn’t want me to be riding my bicycle or even taking the Metro. I have a security detail that drives me.
Q: How do you feel about adding carbon emissions to the air?
A: I don’t feel good about it.
“I don’t feel good about it”? The guy is in agony over it! Chu is an avid, lifelong bicyclist—the interviewer didn’t have to ask, Chu volunteered that fact—and now he’s sealed up in a Chevy Tahoe. Ouch!
What followed was even worse: