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”.
“We are unabashedly pursuing a [RUSSIAN] policy of more
Americanenergy production and infrastructure, not less,”FTFY, Murca
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
You don’t need to, Canada gives it at steep discounts already.
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.
I’m so happy my wife and I don’t have kids, and I feel sorry for all my friends. It was a fun ride.
Same. I also feel bad for my two nephews who are both in their 20’s. One of them used to talk about raising a family & being a stay at home dad. He hasn’t talked like that in about 5 years now.
My nephew, who’s 22, is having a kid. It was planned with his girlfriend. I was shocked when I heard.
Same here.
Yeah! We can really rub it in their faces while we all die!
I was actually thinking of doing some extra-hard rubbing right before I die.
They’re going to end not just all of us, but humanity. They have to be stopped.
Also, remember how much they hated Greta Thunberg? :(
The clown show continues.
The clowning will continue until morale hits rock bottom
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.
You’re now banned from Reddit.
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?
I got a comment removed for saying France should gift the US a guillotine… Just as a gesture. The bad thing here is that mods remove stuff and the user isn’t notified. I think that’s shitty. Also they state -removed because of rule 3, but don’t say what rule 3 is, so I decided rule 3 is being too cool.
Thank christ.
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.
We’re fucked aren’t we?
Yes, but at least we have petroleum jelly to make it a little less painful.
Yes, but at least we have petroleum jelly to make it a little less painful.
Since when is solar and wind power “less energy”?
I can’t feel the cancererous tumors developing when I use solar and wind so it must be an inferior power source
They’re gonna Blade Runner 2049 this bitch.
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”.
Well that’s funny considering US drilling and oil production ramped up to an all-time high under Biden.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/crude-oil-production
https://www.statista.com/statistics/265215/us-oil-production-in-million-metric-tons/
Fossil fuels are renewable too… just not in the timescale that works for humanity
You just have to time travel, he forgot to explain that to us, we’re just ignorant and tech-unsavy people compared to him and his fellow
America: produces more oil than ever before and more than basically every other country
GOP: that’s not enough!
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
“I just want to push the world further into a catastrophic event! What’s the big deal?!”
Hilariously enough - this’ll likely blow the bottom out of the oil market and end up hurting those companies.
Remember how gas use plummeted during the pandemic and prices really didn’t?
They’ll just do that again
