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”.

  • @[email protected]English
    64•20 hours 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.

    • @P1nkman
      37•20 hours ago

      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.

      • @IphtashuFitzEnglish
        3•4 hours ago

        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
          2•4 hours ago

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

      • @grueEnglish
        4•15 hours ago

        They’re openly radically pro-Russian.