Interior Secretary - "Well, There's No Such Thing As Clean Energy"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Zinke is a binary thinker. And using the quest for perfect as an enemy of the good.

1) Think the ying-yang symbol. The black dot in the white swirl is there to remind that even white is not pure white.

2) "The perfect is the enemy of the good." It is binary thinking to imagine that unless something is perfect, it is no good. Of course this kind of binary fallacy is only applied by sloppy thinkers against what they dislike.

3) China has its own coal, yet is getting rid of coal powered plants and factories as fast as it can. They are NOT going to buy US coal.

4) Coal jobs are not coming back. Peak production was in the 1950s. Peak employment was in the 1920s. America was great in the 1920s only in comparison to the 1880s, not in comparison to the 1950s. Similarly America was great in the 1950s only in comparison to the 1920s, not in comparison to the Twenty-Teens.

5) Sustainable power like wind power is so much cleaner than coal and than even "clean coal" that only a slave to mega-corps like Zincke would make a ridiculous statement like he does. "If you look at — is there such thing as clean coal? Well there’s no such thing as clean energy — even wind comes at a cost if you want to talk about migratory birds and cutting through."