The world needs more planet-heating fossil fuel, not less, Donald Trump’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright, told oil and gas bigwigs on Monday.

“We are unabashedly pursuing a policy of more American energy production and infrastructure, not less,” he said in the opening plenary talk of CERAWeek, a swanky annual conference in Houston, Texas, led by the financial firm S&P Global.

Wright, a former fracking executive who was picked by Trump to the crucial cabinet position, also attacked the Joe Biden administration for focusing “myopically on climate change”.

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    28 days ago

    It’ll be hard not to shed a tear when they start pillaging Alaska for more oil reserves. It’s already devastating seeing what’s happening to the national parks. The one good fucking thing the US has managed to keep is our national parks intact and I’m really gonna hate seeing that fall apart. We have some beautiful land here that I’m sure some billionaires would love to turn into their vacation homes

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      28 days ago

      You don’t need to, Canada gives it at steep discounts already.

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    29 days ago

    They are so transparently stupid and vile at this point that I’m not going to get emotionally invested any longer. Just remember that it was these assholes and the assholes that voted them in when the planet is dying.

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    28 days ago

    I’d have to go from 10$ month for charging my car to paying a 100$ a month. No thanks.

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    28 days ago

    “We are unabashedly pursuing a [RUSSIAN] policy of more American energy production and infrastructure, not less,”

    FTFY, Murca

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    29 days ago

    If I was a doctor, I’d say that Trump has a severe case of ODD. It’s very, very obvious that he’s doing these things because someone else said the opposite.

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      I can’t feel the cancererous tumors developing when I use solar and wind so it must be an inferior power source

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      A Harbor Freight solar panel produces 500 watts per day.

      A coal plant makes 50 megawatts per day.

      Therefore, fossil fuels are better. Checkmate, green energy!

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    Lord, we don’t any windmills

    There are windmills and turbines enough to turn

    There are panels and hydros enough to burn, enough to last, ‘til the end of time

    What the world needs now, is gas, sweet gas

    It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of

    With deep apologies to Hal David

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    29 days ago

    Hey, he’s not wrong, I can think of a couple old fossils I’d like to see experience internal combustion if you know what I mean.

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        29 days ago

        I even got a post removed from Lemmy earlier today because it included a ‘call for violence’ against Trump and Leon.

        But, I didn’t get banned, so that’s a plus.

        On the OP’s topic–is anyone in the world really gonna feel bereft if a total cunt like this Chris Wright guy goes missing?

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    29 days ago

    “I just want to push the world further into a catastrophic event! What’s the big deal?!”

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    29 days ago

    America: produces more oil than ever before and more than basically every other country

    GOP: that’s not enough!