WND By Bradley Devlin, The Daily Signal
February 17, 2025
'This is lunacy': Trump's new Energy secretary implores Europeans to 'return to sobriety' on climate, energy'If you make energy more expensive and less reliable, you lower the standard of living'On the heels of Vice President JD Vance challenging Europe's regulatory, energy, and security environments in Paris and Munich, President Donald Trump's newly minted energy secretary, Chris Wright, piled on in a virtual address at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London.
Wright particularly called out Net Zero 2050 in his conversation with Chris Uhlmann of Sky News. "Net Zero 2050 is a sinister goal," he said. "It's terrible."
Energy policies like Net Zero 2050, "have not delivered any benefits, but it's delivered tremendous costs," Wright said.
The energy secretary suggested these costs go far beyond the gas pump or a family's energy bill. It materializes in the form of large-scale deindustrialization, which impoverishes workers and increases inequality. He cited the United Kingdom as an example:
If you make energy more expensive and less reliable, as the United Kingdom has done over the last couple of decades, you lower the standard of living of your population, shrink their opportunity set, and you simply export your industry.
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