Posted on 12/14/2016 2:13:54 AM PST by expat_panama
Energy: With a spate of major Cabinet picks, President-elect Donald Trump has made one thing abundantly clear: He intends to make reform of U.S. energy policy a major theme of his administration.
On Tuesday word leaked out that Trump would choose former Texas Gov. Rick Perry as his new Energy Secretary.
Perry, whose economic success as Texas governor speaks for itself, is a terrific pick who'll need very little on-the-job training about what plentiful energy means to real people in the real economy — especially when compared to President Obama's energy secretaries, the UC Berkeley physicist Stephen Chu, who focused largely on global warming...
...Trump's energy Cabinet isn't just about Perry. Trump's selection of Exxon Mobil's highly regarded CEO Rex Tillerson as secretary of state shows just how much he regards energy.
Tillerson has had a ground's-eye view of the dynamics and diplomacy of the global energy business...
...This is shaping up to be the most pro-energy administration in recent history. And that's a very good thing.
Policies now in place under Obama that demonize cheap, plentiful supplies of conventional energy while spending hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing inefficient "alternative" energy such as wind and solar will likely disappear — or be changed beyond recognition. As for the Paris Agreement on global warming that absurdly calls on the U.S. to reduce its CO2 output by nearly a third by 2030, it will likely be scrapped or ignored, since it's main purpose was to slow the U.S. economy.
As U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah wrote this week at the Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal, "If we want our economy to produce the jobs and wage growth it has in the past, the energy sector is perhaps the best area for the incoming administration to start."
Yep. We couldn't agree more.
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Have you just come out of a coma that lasted the last 30 years? Your ignorance of fact on this topic is so total you either a complete moron or you have been in a coma.
Looks like you are making stuff up, Johnnie. That's a no-no.
If Trump were really trolling the libs on the SoS nomination, he would have nominated Palin.
Talk about exploding heads.
Energy has been so crippled over the last 20 years by government, it is basically an invisible tax on everyone, especially the poorest.
I hope it is the direction of efficient energy. Texas funded wind turbines and build a huge transmission line to nowhere for the renewable energy while Perry was governor. I am hearing Tillerson is for carbon tax and acknowledged global warming is man made. How much of that is political gaming to keep environmentalist off the back of Exxon? I hope much of it is. In Texas, the governor doesn’t have much power but he does have influence. There is so much potential money in renewables that I am concerned the politicians will not go in a more solid direction However, the money isn’t there without lots of government involvement.
-—This is not about white collar vs. blue collar jobs, but about the “new collar” jobs that employers in many industries demand, but which remain largely unfilled.——
That is a great statement of reality. That statement includes the reason we will “not bring our jobs back to America”. We don’t need those old products to be made here. We can’t provide workers with the knowledge and skills to fill the jobs available.
Those that insist on “bringing those jobs home” don’t know it but they also insist on establishing what amount to “labor zones” paying less than minimum wage and located in the cities where vast populations are basically ignorant and incompetent by today’s real labor market requirements.
Spoken like an idiot who understands nothing about humans and politics. We need manufacturing jobs so ALL Americans can work and be productive. It is also a matter of national security.
You need to de-Limbaugh your brain.
Only real rubes read USA today.new collar" jobs. LOL.
Energy is the basic building block of everything you manufacture or grow. Lower prices lead to lower costs for everything you buy.
Pray America woke
Well said; I concur.
You are on a fool’s mission if you think that “renewables” are a key in the near-term to solving our energy needs. Solar and windmills are like a fart in a whirlwind in terms of their contribution to this country’s energy needs. Fine if you want to pi$$ away your hard-earned dollars on some solar panels for your roof, and think somehow you’re saving money and the environment, but to extend that thinking to this country’s overall energy strategy is just simply nonsense. Windmills are a joke that only provide a place to waste the taxpayer’s money.
If they can find a way to re-educate those in Congress to grow up and quit acting like spoiled childish brats.
He's also for gay boy scouts.
Just another “concern troll”!
That is Gates. Check the truth, Concern Troll!
You must have misread your democrat talking points — it is Russia who is in charge of the administration now.
It was your man Obama, who bowed down low in submission before the Saudi king, who is controlled by the House of Saud.
Hey remember when George Bush used to suck that homo Saudi King's face?
Depends on whether they want energy; or whether they want oil, coal, nuclear, hydro-power, geothermal, solar, or wind.
Certainly.
Energy dept- check
Interior dept - check
EPA - check
Sec of State - check
The high energy cabinet is ready to go!
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