The world needs more planet-heating fossil fuel, not less, Donald Trump’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright, told oil and gas bigwigs on Monday.

“We are unabashedly pursuing a policy of more American energy production and infrastructure, not less,” he said in the opening plenary talk of CERAWeek, a swanky annual conference in Houston, Texas, led by the financial firm S&P Global.

Wright, a former fracking executive who was picked by Trump to the crucial cabinet position, also attacked the Joe Biden administration for focusing “myopically on climate change”.

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    20 hours ago

    Hilariously enough - this’ll likely blow the bottom out of the oil market and end up hurting those companies.

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      15 hours ago

      Remember how gas use plummeted during the pandemic and prices really didn’t?

      They’ll just do that again