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Energy Secretary Rick Perry attends a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington on July 18.
Perry said on Nov. 2 that electricity powered by fossil fuels can help villages in Africa and other developing regions, including "from the standpoint of sexual assault."Re: “,” Nov. 2 news story.
Rick Perry, the “Oops!” secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, wins the prize for this month’s most idiotic gaffe. Perry, one of Donald Trump’s many Cabinet secretaries appointed to dismantle the very agencies they head by their sheer ineptitude, said recently that fossil fuels would play a “positive role” in preventing rape in African villages: “When the lights are on, when you have light that shines, the righteousness, if you will, on those types of acts. … Fossil fuels is going to play a role in that.”
As has become quite apparent regarding Rick Perry, the lights are on but no one is home.
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