If not Secretary Gore, how about Secretary Schmidt?
With it appearing that Gore will not be taking an official position in the Obama administration, there is plenty of room to speculate about other potential all-star nominations. Grist makes the fascinating suggestion of Google’s chairman and CEO, Eric Schmidt.
Although Schmidt, like Gore, has indicated he does not want a cabinet position, Grist argues that he would be perfect for the role of energy secretary. Grist notes that Schmidt is clearly a skilled manager, knows how to grow, finance, and market an organization, and has a ton of experience with energy management due to the Google servers enormous need for electricity.
While this is an intriguing suggestion, Schmidt, like Gore, is still able to make a tremendous contribution to the cause through his role in the private sector. The Google Clean Energy 2030 plan is basically a playbook for solving our energy and environmental crisis. Based on this, there might be little reason for Schmidt to leave Google to join the administration, at least at this point in time. And with Google’s stock price below 300, Schmidt probably sees a lot of work left to be done where he is right now.
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