I wonder sometimes...

[tpulley]

How is this guy smart enough to put clothes on, let alone be on the House Energy and Commerce Committee? He even tweeted, "I seemed [sic] to have baffled the Energy Sec with basic question - Where does oil come from?"

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Update: I looked at his youtube page. Not only is he on the committee, he is "the highest ranking Republican on the Energy and

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[deb_0_rah]

So... wait... this texas congressman thinks that all the oil under alaska, got there in a pipeline from texas?

[tpulley]

If I had to guess, he thinks Gawd put it there when he created everything 6,000 years ago.

I wonder if he knows where babies come from.

[deb_0_rah]

and he thinks that he confused the scientist?

wow. there are no words. you're right- he probably isn't sure which hole to push his head through when he puts on a shirt.

[tpulley]

what's really funny is that his staff was deleting the comments one-by-one because originally they weren't disabled. I linked his own official YT copy, but people have already made other copies with comments. I would *love* to see this guy get famous in mainstream media for being so smugly stupid.

And Mr. Chu isn't just any scientist. He is a nobel laureate (for physics)! If you look up his wikipedia page, you'll see his whole family is insanely educated.