I can see Perry as Secretary of Agriculture but not Secretary of Energy. Just because he is from Texas doesn’t mean that he knows anything about the oil & gas business.
Perry was Texas Agriculture Commissioner for almost 10 years before he was elected governor and he has a BS in Animal Science from Texas A&M.
//he has a BS in Animal Science from Texas A&M.//
But did he actually ever make any money from farming or ranching? Farmers tend to hate ‘college educated idiots’ who don’t actually farm.
Perry was a good governor and Texas has a long history of oil and gas development. If you lived for more than a decade in Texas, particularly if you were in Texas politics, you had to know about the oil, gas, and coal industries as they are essential to our economy.