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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEnergy Secretary Rick Perry says moving from fossil fuels to renewables is immoral
https://thinkprogress.org/rick-perry-shifting-off-fossil-fuels-immoral-58eca749f006/amp/?__twitter_impression=trueBy 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 cant 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.
Perrys 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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Energy Secretary Rick Perry says moving from fossil fuels to renewables is immoral (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2018
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)1. Oil $$$$ makes Perry stupider...and that is saying something.
Ohiogal
(32,057 posts)2. Putting doofus Rick Perry in charge of anything
larger than a lemonade stand is what's immoral.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)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
(3,384 posts)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
(36,693 posts)5. Rick Perry looked into the mirror and saw immoral
MFM008
(19,818 posts)6. Like HIS party
HIS maggot.
benld74
(9,909 posts)7. Doubt he can spell immoral
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)8. In other words
Rick Perry: "We refuse to actually help these shithole countries unless we can make big profits by doing so."
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)9. I think that is more to the point.