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What the world needs now is more fossil fuels, says Trump’s energy secretary

www.theguardian.com What the world needs now is more fossil fuels, says Trump’s energy secretary

Chris Wright signals abandonment of Biden’s ‘irrational, quasi-religious’ climate policies at industry conference

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

“We are unabashedly pursuing a [RUSSIAN] policy of more ~~American~~ energy 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.

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

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.
  
  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 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
  
  They're openly radically pro-Russian.
- Unfortunately that’s the kind of damage that can’t be undone in 4 years.

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?
  
  Thank christ.

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? :(

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
- 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!
- 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
- Ehhh. I don't know.
  So, a lot of fossil fuel built up the Carboniferous Period. Basically, you had woody plants develop. But it took a while for organisms to develop that could break down dead woody plants. So aside from massive fires --- which were a thing for a while --- there wasn't really a way to eliminate dead wood. A lot of it ultimately became coal.
  But today, the world has those organisms. I don't think that it's really possible to reproduce that coal build-up again.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous
  The Carboniferous (/ˌkɑːrbəˈnɪfərəs/ KAR-bə-NIF-ər-əs)[6] is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period 358.86 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, 298.9 Ma.
  There is ongoing debate as to why this peak in the formation of Earth's coal deposits occurred during the Carboniferous. The first theory, known as the delayed fungal evolution hypothesis, is that a delay between the development of trees with the wood fibre lignin and the subsequent evolution of lignin-degrading fungi gave a period of time where vast amounts of lignin-based organic material could accumulate. Genetic analysis of basidiomycete fungi, which have enzymes capable of breaking down lignin, supports this theory by suggesting this fungi evolved in the Permian.[26][27] However, significant Mesozoic and Cenozoic coal deposits formed after lignin-digesting fungi had become well established, and fungal degradation of lignin may have already evolved by the end of the Devonian, even if the specific enzymes used by basidiomycetes had not.[25] The second theory is that the geographical setting and climate of the Carboniferous were unique in Earth's history: the co-occurrence of the position of the continents across the humid equatorial zone, high biological productivity, and the low-lying, water-logged and slowly subsiding sedimentary basins that allowed the thick accumulation of peat were sufficient to account for the peak in coal formation.[25]
  According to the WP article, there's a competing theory, but even if that's the reason for coal accumulation, it still doesn't really apply to the world today.
- 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!

"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

moronically focused on producing more lethal fossil fuels!!!

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

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

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