The Secretary of Energy is in charge of the policy over a resource we use for…energy?! Why didn’t anyone explain this to Mr. Chu earlier?

At a forum with reporters on Thursday, the head of the department that has traditionally taken the lead on global oil-market policy, was asked what message the Obama administration had for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries at its meeting next month.

“I’m not the administration,” the Cabinet secretary replied. “I will be speaking and learning more about this in order to figure out what the U.S. position should be and what the president’s position is.”…

The day before, reporters asked him about OPEC output levels after a speech to a group of utility regulators. He responded that the issue was “not in my domain.”

Where did Mr. Chu earn his Ph.D.? Whatsamatta University? And just when you thought that the Nobel prize couldn’t mean less. He chalks his mistake up to “naivete”. I chalk it up to blatant stupidity. It doesn’t take an experienced adviser to understand that energy policy includes oil.

Exit question: The administration’s just winging it now, isn’t it?