DEARBORN - JUNE 23: Ford Motor Company employees gather to listen to Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu speak at an event where it was announced that the government, through the U.S. Department of Energy, will loan the company $5.9 billion dollars June 23, 2009 in Dearborn, Michigan. The loan is designed to help Ford convert auto plants so they can produce more fuel-efficient vehicles. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

DEARBORN - JUNE 23: Ford Motor Company employees gather to listen to Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu speak at an event where it was announced that the government, through the U.S. Department of Energy, will loan the company $5.9 billion dollars June 23, 2009 in Dearborn, Michigan. The loan is designed to help Ford convert auto plants so they can produce more fuel-efficient vehicles.

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  3. Romania's President Traian Basescu exits from the first Ford Transit Connect car produced at the Ford factory in Craiova, 230km (143 miles) east of Bucharest September 8, 2009. Ford Motor Co launched production at its Romanian plant in the southwestern city of Craiova on Tuesday, seeking to sell their award-winning Transit Connect van on eastern European markets, officials said.
  4. Ford of Europe President John Fleming, right, poses with Romania's president Traian Basescu, left, next to the first Ford Transit Connect produced at the new Ford Motor Co. factory in Craiova, Romania, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. Ford Motor Co. launched production of its new model Transit Connect in Romania on Tuesday, two years after it took over a state auto maker in the country. The Transit Connect, a compact van, will sell for euro14,000 to euro15,600 ($20,000 to $22,000) in Romania and the United States.
  5. Ford of Europe President John Fleming, seen, at the new Ford Motor Co. factory in Craiova, Romania, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. Ford Motor Co. launched production of its new model Transit Connect in Romania on Tuesday, two years after it took over a state auto maker in the country. The Transit Connect, a compact van, will sell for euro14,000 to euro15,600 ($20,000 to $22,000) in Romania and the United States.
  6. Romanian workers walk by Ford Transit compact vans, on an assembly line of the new Ford Motor Co. factory in Craiova, Romania, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. Ford Motor Co. launched production of its new model Transit Connect in Romania on Tuesday, two years after it took over a state auto maker in the country. The Transit Connect, a compact van, will sell for euro14,000 to euro15,600 ($20,000 to $22,000) in Romania and the United States.
  7. U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (C) listens to students Allison Kopf (L), Annessa Mattson (2ndL) and Tim Sennott (R) describe Team California's solar-powered house during the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington October 7, 2009.
  8. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, right, and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke leave the stage after a clean energy and climate change discussion with business leaders, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across from the White House in Washington.
  9. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, right, and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke answer questions at a clean energy and climate change discussion with business leaders, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across from the White House in Washington.
  10. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 22: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (L) and Energy Secretary Steven Chu (R) participate in a roundtable discussion with executives at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Room on September 22, 2009 in Washington, DC. Secretary Geithner hosted the discussion with executives of several renewable energy companies that received awards under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
  11. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 22: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (L) and Energy Secretary Steven Chu (R) participate in a roundtable discussion with executives at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Room on September 22, 2009 in Washington, DC. Secretary Geithner hosted the discussion with executives of several renewable energy companies that received awards under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
  12. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 22: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (C) speaks while flanked by Energy Secretary Steven Chu (R) and Martha Wyrsch (L), President of Vestas Americas, during a roundtable discussion with executives at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Room on September 22, 2009 in Washington, DC. Secretary Geithner hosted the discussion with executives of several renewable energy companies that received awards under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
  13. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu delivers a speech at the beginning of a general conference of the IAEA, at Vienna's International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009.
  14. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu delivers a speech at the beginning of a general conference of the IAEA, at Vienna's International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009.
  15. Delegation members wait in a parlor room outside the Ben Franklin Room of the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, during the EU-US Energy Summit.
  16. European Council High Representative Javier Solana participates in the EU-U.S. Energy Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, at the State Department in Washington.

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