So It Goes: Enron Perp Will Get Out of Jail (Almost) Free By Buying Himself Out

[Dragonfli]

63. I know! He is an energy pro, how about energy secretary! Republicans will like that

He will probably sail right through the confirmation hearings! He could help us to take advantage of the new and wondrous fracking tech that will be important, just like clean coal (coal is clean you know, like a bar of black Irish Spring) will be for an all of the above approach along with more oil production to help with the green plan!

Someone will have to assist the awesome CEO Sally Jewell, Ms. Jewell is seen as at least somewhat friendly toward oil and natural gas. She also says she backs an all-of-the-above energy strategy.

Oh fuck! he just missed that one too, Ernest Moniz, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former undersecretary at the department, praised the U.S. natural gas “revolution” brought about by widespread use of fracking and said it must continue. The Republicans loved the guy and he sailed through senate confirmations with something for every industry.

Mr. Moniz even had kind words for coal, saying the fuel — public enemy No. 1 in the environmental community and among many liberals in Congress — is likely to remain a part of the American energy portfolio, though he stipulated that clean coal (just as clean and fresh as an irish spring I tells ya) technologies are an essential part of that equation.

Mr. Moniz reassured coal-state senators that he believes the fuel won’t be shoved aside.
“We see coal as being a continuing, major part of the energy supply in the U.S., and certainly in the world,”