{"id":136996409,"date":"2009-05-05T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T14:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136996409"},"modified":"2009-05-05T14:33:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T14:33:29","slug":"department-of-energy-secretary-chu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136996409","title":{"rendered":"Department of Energy &#8211; Secretary Chu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"media mediaItemundefined media-right\" style=\"width: 307px; float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.grist.org\/i\/assets\/chu-on-bike.jpg\" alt=\"Chu and biking colleagues.\" \/><span class=\"caption\">Chu (center) with cycling colleagues at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Q: Is it true you don\u2019t drive a car?<br \/> 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.<br \/> Q: And now?<br \/> A: My security detail didn\u2019t want me to be riding my bicycle or even taking the Metro. I have a security detail that drives me.<br \/> Q: How do you feel about adding carbon emissions to the air?<br \/> A: I don\u2019t feel good about it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel good about it\u201d? The guy is in <em>agony<\/em> over it! Chu<br \/>\nis an avid, lifelong bicyclist\u2014the interviewer didn\u2019t have to ask, Chu <em>volunteered<\/em> that fact\u2014and now he\u2019s sealed<br \/>\nup in a Chevy Tahoe. Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>What followed was even worse:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/energy-boss-misses-bike1\/\">https:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/energy-boss-misses-bike1\/<\/a>oldId.20090505143329758<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chu (center) with cycling colleagues at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Q: Is it true you don\u2019t 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\u2019t want &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136996409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Department of Energy &#8211; Secretary Chu&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136996409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136996409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136996409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136996409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136996409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136996409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136996409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}