Science , math , and identification number are not the Trump administration ’s solid point , to put it lightly . block all their climate change self-denial for a 2d – what about that time they made a$2 trillion errorin their notoriously anti - science federal budget ? It ’s odd except for the fact that they ’re running the nation .
Rick Perry is arguably the most comically clumsy member of this band of populists . He regularlyforgetsthe name and purpose of the Department of Energy ( DoE ) , of which he – an brute husbandry expert – is the head of . He recentlydeniedthe canonic skill behind C dioxide . Now , during a tour of a ember - fire power plant , it come along that he ’s not quite trusted how capitalism work either .
As reported byAxios , during the walkabout in West Virginia , Perry was get wind to have said : “ Here ’s a picayune political economy lesson : supplying and demand . You put the supply out there and the demand will come . ”
In this sense , the pro - coal Perry was clearly attempt to say that if you build more coal plants and get more ember out of the ground , people will desire it and use it . This , as you might have suspected , is not how coal - ground supply and demand works . In fact , it ’s not how supply and need works at all .
Let ’s put it this way . Say a troupe is tender you a soap that micturate your mitt odor of rotten eggs . You would n’t want this , and neither would anyone else . The company then produces warehouse - fill quantity of their fart - infuse soap , because according to Perry , the more you grow of something , the more people want to buy it .
Obviously , this company would go bankrupt very soon .
Similarly , if you do all you could to prop up the failing coal industry , and get as much ember out of the ground as possible , it does n’t imply that hoi polloi will use this extra coal .
Coal is dirty , and is the most carbon - copious fossil fuel there is . The residual of the world is beginning to turn away ember in favour of the proliferatingrenewable energysector , and at least twelve American states are too . Throwing ember in people ’s faces – or making up a crazy new possibility of political economy – is not going to change that .
