Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry warned in the wake of a crippling snowstorm in Texas Monday that adhering to green energy ideology will result in people getting killed.
âThey donât care about your lives in those cases,â Perry, who served as former President Donald Trumpâs energy secretary for two years, said about liberal politicians, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who support ambitious green energy policies.
âI mean, think about if we were in the AOC world, fast forward 10 years, and everything is solar, everything is wind,â Perry, appearing on Tucker Carlsonâs Fox News program, continued. âAnd you have this type of event, this type of, I mean, itâs 9 degrees in Round Top, Texas, weâre the same latitude as Houston, 9 degrees. And if you donât have power, youâre gonna, youâre gonna die. I mean, there are countless lives that could be lost with this type of reckless adhering to a philosophy that, quite frankly, is not scientific.â
Texas is currently being ravaged by a freezing storm that has left millions of residents without power partially due to frozen windmills, which has prompted conservatives to direct blame at the practicality of green energy.
Perry lost connection with Carlson during the interview due to the massive storm, and Carlson responded to the broken feed as an example of the âpointâ he was trying to make.
Connection lost when Tucker Carlson invites Rick Perry to talk about Texas losing power because of wind turbines freezing in the winter storm
"He's proving the point that we're making" pic.twitter.com/0GWVmgYXTt
— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) February 16, 2021
Some experts have pointed out that wind is only responsible for 25% of Texasâs energy production and cautioned frustrated residents that âwind is not solely to blame.â
âSo, the point is you need to have a diversity of energy sources no matter where you are,â Perry, who served as governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015, added in the interview with Carlson. âAnd [there] couldnât be a greater example of that in the state of Texas right now. We got a massive amount of wind farms out in West Texas that are frozen up there just like a propeller on an airplane. They froze up last night, no wind out there. All of that wind energy was lost.â
