When the former Texas Governor, Rick Perry, was offered the position of Secretary of the Department of Energy he quickly accepted, believing he was going to be a global ambassador for the oil and gas industry. Only later did Perry realize that the bulk of the agency's mission "...is devoted to maintaining, refurbishing and keeping safe the nation's nuclear stockpile."
As a candidate for President in 2012, Perry proposed the elimination of the Energy Department, although he couldn't remember its name. Perry stated, "They've never created one bit of energy, the best I can tell."
The last two energy secretaries were physicist Dr. Ernest Moniz of M.I.T. and Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize physicist from Stanford. Rick Perry has a bachelor's degree in animal science and was recently a contestant on Dancing With the Stars.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/us/politics/rick-perry-energy-secretary-donald-trump.html?smid=tw-share&referer=https://t.co/Kf9V2NrAIZ&_r=0
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