Energy Secretary Rick Perry says moving from fossil fuels to renewables is immoral

[applegrove]

https://thinkprogress.org/rick-perry-shifting-off-fossil-fuels-immoral-58eca749f006/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

By Joe Romm at Think Progress

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Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Wednesday that it was “immoral” to help poor nations shift off of fossil fuels.

“Look those people in the eyes that are starving and tell them you can’t have electricity,” said Perry in remarks after his big speech to the oil and gas industry at the annual CERAWeek energy conference in Houston. “Because as a society we decided fossil fuels were bad. I think that is immoral.”

Perry’s logic and morality are both blinkered. First, despite being in charge of a $2 billion clean energy program, Perry seems completely unaware that solar and wind are now cheaper sources of electricity than fossil fuels.

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Indeed, solar power keeps crushing its own record for cheapest unsubsidized electricity “ever, anywhere, by any technology.” And in Colorado, building new renewable power plus battery storage is now cheaper than running old coal plants.



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[Fred Sanders]

1. Oil $$$$ makes Perry stupider...and that is saying something.

[Ohiogal]

2. Putting doofus Rick Perry in charge of anything

larger than a lemonade stand is what's immoral.

[applegrove]

3. What a pathetic argument. Renewables will make the poor own their source

of energy instead of constantly paying someone rich for it. Kids are looking online to see how to build personal windmills and gerryrigging them in Africa as we speak.

[vkkv]

4. Money is immoral. There WAS NO POVERTY before money and commodities were introduced.

There was no "poor" before money came along.. Money is immoral.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Rick Perry looked into the mirror and saw immoral

[MFM008]

6. Like HIS party

HIS maggot.

[benld74]

7. Doubt he can spell immoral

[ProudLib72]

8. In other words

Rick Perry: "We refuse to actually help these shithole countries unless we can make big profits by doing so."

[OhioBlue]

9. I think that is more to the point.