The title of this video is "energy secretary puzzled by simple question". The real title is "Energy secretary asked a highly complicated scientific question by a senator whose career is owed to energy companies knowing the secretary only had 6 seconds to respond in order to discredit him". Anyway, I actually thought he gave a cogent answer despite being blind-sided.



For more on willfully ignorant assholes like Joe Barton...

A combination of corporate money and an unregulated corporate media keeps America in the dark ages. This bill is the best we're going to get for now because the corruption of public life in the United States has not been addressed. Whether he is seeking environmental reforms, health reforms or any other improvement in the life of the American people, this is Obama's real challenge.