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At the Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in the House yesterday, the first of four days of hearings, the panel was composed of EPA Administrator Jackson, Sec. of Transportation LaHood, and Sec. of Energy Chu.
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TeXass) used the last 6 seconds of his time to ask how oil got to Alaska. This was to imply that Alaska and the Arctic must have been warm at one point in time for oil reserves to be deposited there. Dr. Chu responded by giving him a short lessons in plate tectonics, that land masses have shifted over the course of 100 million years. "It just drifted there".
Rep. Barton tweeted that he baffled the Nobel Laureate. From The University of California. At least Rep. John Shimkus (R-ILiteral) did not start reading the Bible to try to prove Sec. Chu and Rep. Barton both wrong.
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