In the continuing saga of Energy Secretary Rick Perry proving he may be the dumbest Cabinet Secretary in history (sorry Ben Carson), he has found a way to prevent sexual assault — using fossil fuels to generate electricity in Africa. At Politico, Perry explains his reasoning
Energy Secretary Rick Perry suggested on Thursday that increasing fossil fuel use to spread electricity across Africa would help prevent sexual assaults there.
Perry, who traveled to South Africa last week to tout the Energy Department’s partnerships there, said he spoke with a young girl who wanted electricity so she could read without relying on the light of a fire “and have those fumes literally killing people. But also from the standpoint of sexual assault.”
“When the lights are on, when you have light that shines — the righteousness, if you will — on those types of acts,” he told an Axios event. www.politico.com/...
This is insane on so many levels.