Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the energy secretary under President Donald Trump, said Thursday that fossil fuels will power the future, taking aim at the White House for its approach to the oil and gas industry.
“You’ve got to be an idiot, Secretary Kerry, to think that the fossil fuel industry is at the end of its road,” Perry told a roomful of energy professionals at the Gulf Coast Industry Forum in Pasadena. “It’s not.”Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the energy secretary under President Donald Trump, said Thursday fossil fuels will power the future, taking aim at the White House for its approach to the oil and gas industry.
His comments come in the heat of the midterm election cycle. The Ukraine war is making clear how climate policies can go wrong, he said, pointing to the “cold and dark” winter ahead in Europe as it faces an energy crisis.In his own speech at the conference, Gov. Greg Abbott said the Texas oil and gas industry is proving its worth to the world as Europe leans on it in its time of need.
"If you're following at all, what's going on in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, the oil and gas that’s produced in Texas and shipped out of Texas is more essential globally now than ever before in the history of the world," Abbott said.“Both the House and the Senate I think will be back in Republican hands,” he said, “and I think the fossil fuel industry will get the respect it deserves.
Despite a tense relationship with industry, Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, has acknowledged the role the industry must play in the path ahead if the world is to address climate change. "No government in the world has enough money to implement this transition," Kerry said during CERAweek in March, noting"we absolutely need the industry at the table."Perry urged forum attendees to “push back” on the hypocrisy of those who say they are worried about climate change while “flying around on your family’s private jet,” taking another jab at Kerry.
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