Fossil Fuels Are the Future, Trump Energy Secretary Tells African Leaders. “We’ve had years of Western countries shamelessly saying don’t develop coal, coal is bad,” Wright said. “That’s just nonsense, 100 percent nonsense. Coal transformed our world and made it better.”

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1. Moronic and an exemplar of how to not profit from evolving technologies.

2. Bring back the typewriter while we are at it. Ditch the PC, smartphone, etc. Bring back the horse and buggy

3. Freaking misinformation psychopath

4. The dark ages are returning

5. I think the future is goat pelts and bone clubs!

6. Does he expect that these countries will blindly accept his bs?

   It’s widely understood by now that the lifetime costs of renewable are less than coal, and falling further

7. Funny, I learned just this week that Kenya is %100 renewable energy.

8. This is a guy that back in the early 1900s would have been telling everyone gas engines were just a fad and the horse and buggy is here to stay.

9. Imagine how confined and limited a mind you must have to think that Fossil Fuels are the “Future” of our species

   Really…? So, there is no OTHER sources of better cleaner power for us to exploit and explore other than Fossil Fuels, like how dumb must one be to believe that?

   Sadly the answer is about half of this country will believe anything these people say…. And they keep pulling us back from true progress as a nation, as a civilization and as a species…

10. So did steam engines, let’s go back to steam!!!!

11. “Fire change world. Fire no bad, fire good. Fire friend.”

12. These people are actually evil. They know the havoc fossil fuels are causing but are lying for money. They know they’ll be dead before the effects impact them.

13. Gd boomers can’t move on. They need to move out the damn way of the progress of this world.

14. you can’t make this stuff up! Incompetence and corruption at work.

15. Coal transformed our workers into black lung zombies

16. MAGA will eventually learn that just because you think it, doesn’t mean it’s reality….and that in most serious countries on earth people side with facts over one man’s opinion

17. Why not revert to stone then. Made the world better millennia ago. Can’t go wrong with stone.

18. Yeah, and people were healthier before vaccinations. What about promoting this aswell? O wait … 🧐

19. Literally an example of no new ideas on this side of the aisle either. Good grief. (Face palm) Welcome to the world of AI, quantum computing, super conductors, autonomous drones, and DNA manipulation.

20. These billionaires are terrified of doing a hard days work.

21. Transformed your wallets and the planets atmosphere, you mean. Sure let’s continue terraforming the planet to be more suitable for dinosaurs and less so for humans.

22. Typewriters changed the world too, doesn’t mean they aren’t outclassed in the 21st century

23. They don’t care about the future, the environment, anywhere outside of the US or people’s health. It’s just short-term pandering to the fossil fuels industry who lines their pockets. Disgraceful step backward.

24. Coal is dead. Too expensive to compete. Happens all the time in business.

25. Hopefully nobody believes him. Knowledge is free these days; the tragedy is that so is bullshit. 

26. Back to horse and buggy too

27. F this guy!

28. Are they going to use steam machines again?

29. Bring back lead gas and asbestos! While you at it I want to see those cigarette vending machines at schools! Kids need a smoke after a hard day too!

30. There is always an asshole throwing shit out there that is absolute crap. Sun, Wind and hydroelectric are all cheaper, cleaner, no residual emissions that cause various forms of cancer, diseases. But you go ahead believe the Nazi group they are called the NEW FASCIST FOR A REASON.

31. And you can have children as young as 6 go.down in the mines to dig for it. Just think of the extra money they will bring he to your family. Your employment numbers will be through the roof.

32. He’s an idiot. Coal isn’t going away because it’s bad. It’s because it’s more expensive. Coal plants are being replaced by Natural Gas almost everywhere. Renewables are popping up for additional capacity.

33. Piece of shit ghoul. May the reaper return him and his ilk to their crypts.

34. Horse and carriage made our world better! Complaining about poop everywhere is nonsense.

35. “Coal good! Ooga booga!”

36. Go drive through WV and tell me it changed the world. Coal companies left those people to dry

37. Lead in our gas made them more quiet. Complaining about quickly destroying the environment is nonsense

38. You know, in the animal kingdom, the weakest and dumbest animals get killed off so only the best of their species survive. It’s the complete opposite in humans. I think we should Make Darwinism Great Again.

39. Another guy not living in the current world.

40. MUST. BURN. CARBON!!! ug ug

    Real tired of these fucking cavemen who can’t move on from the conquest of fire.

41. Imagine all the technology that we can use to harvest the sun hidro and wind
    And now the orange guy telling us he wants everyone to use coal and petrol because his billionaires mates a handful of them are nearing bankruptcy if we don’t use petrol.

42. Says the man comfortable being dead in 15 years.

43. One day we will be dead and forgotten but for the deep layer of plastic garbage we leave behind

44. So did whale oil.

45. I assume early humans had to eat each other to keep the species going but we’ve since moved on.

46. Canary in a coal mine wants a word.

47. Africa is going to jump to renewables just like it jumped to cellular instead of building a ridiculous landline infrastructure first.

    This idiot / liar doesn’t matter.

48. How sad is it that our administration has less intelligence than our administration from 100 years ago.

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