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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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[–] ArghlBarghlFooFera@feddit.org 73 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

My nephew, who's 22, is having a kid. It was planned with his girlfriend. I was shocked when I heard.

[–] ArghlBarghlFooFera@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago
[–] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah! We can really rub it in their faces while we all die!

[–] ArghlBarghlFooFera@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

I was actually thinking of doing some extra-hard rubbing right before I die.

[–] tal 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are so transparently stupid and vile at this point

Maybe they're just secretly radically pro-Canadian. Canada is one of the few countries that's expected to economically-benefit on the net from global warming.

https://web.stanford.edu/~mburke/climate/map.php

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

They're openly radically pro-Russian.

[–] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately that’s the kind of damage that can’t be undone in 4 years.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] romp_2_door@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

The clowning will continue until morale hits rock bottom

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] faltryka@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

You’re now banned from Reddit.

[–] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Thank christ.

[–] RedIce25@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] comador@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Yes, but at least we have petroleum jelly to make it a little less painful.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, but at least we have petroleum jelly to make it a little less painful.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Since when is solar and wind power "less energy"?

[–] ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

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

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

They're gonna Blade Runner 2049 this bitch.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months 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.

[–] NeonNight@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

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

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

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/

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

In a just world every oil executive would get a bullet in the head

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

GOP: that’s not enough!

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hilariously enough - this'll likely blow the bottom out of the oil market and end up hurting those companies.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Remember how gas use plummeted during the pandemic and prices really didn’t?

They’ll just do that again

[–] SaladKing@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

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

[–] griff@lemmings.world 4 points 4 months ago

moronically focused on producing more lethal fossil fuels!!!

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

FTFY, Murca

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 4 months ago

What the world needs now is less US, the world decided.

[–] r_deckard@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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