By Scott Weiser | The Gazette, via Colorado Politics
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Energy, Colorado’s Chris Wright, views the world divided between the haves and have-nots — with a specific eye toward access to energy, arguing that, instead of a “climate” agenda, America should focus on ensuring a wide array of cheap, abundant and sustainable energy sources that include geothermal, nuclear, oil and gas.
He argued that this approach is the antidote to what he described as an “energy crisis,” in which a minority of the world’s population has access to abundant energy, while the rest lives in “energy poverty.”
The approach, which he outlined in several articles for Colorado Politics and The Denver Gazette, will likely serve as a philosophical guidepost as he takes on the department that handles U.S. energy diplomacy, administers the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which Trump has said he wants to replenish, and runs grant and loan programs to advance energy technologies, such as the Loan Programs Office.