Some Valuable Insights into the Next Head of the DOE

Today's column in the Wall St. Journal gives some helpful insight into the thinking behind the man tapped by the incoming administration to run the Department of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu. As everyone prepares for an intense energy and carbon debate in 2009, the real question may be how much does energy have to cost to drive public interest in efficiency but without strangling the operating budgets of the companies best suited to fill that need?