Rick Perry suggests fossil fuels help prevent sexual assault
Source: The Hill
BY AVERY ANAPOL - 11/02/17 09:12 AM EDT
Energy Secretary Rick Perry suggested Thursday that expanding the use of fossil fuels could help prevent sexual assault.
Speaking during an energy policy discussion about energy policy with “Meet the Press’” Chuck Todd and Axios CEO and founder Jim VandeHei, Perry discussed his recent trip to Africa. He said a young girl told him that energy is important to her because she often reads by the light of a fire with toxic fumes.
"But also from the standpoint of sexual assault,” Perry said. “When the lights are on, when you have light that shines, the righteousness, if you will on those types of acts.”
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Perry said that using fossil fuel to push power into remote villages in Africa is necessary and will have a “positive role” in peoples’ lives. President Trump has called for expanding domestic production of fossil fuels to export.
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Capt. Rick Perry was a US Air Force pilot. He flew T-38 supersonic trainers and Lockheed C-130s in a tactical airlift squadron. Scary!
...may be speaking for himself.
... he's claiming that there's no light for them to sit in, and stupidly suggesting that light -- fossil fuel light to be precise -- would scare off would-be rapists.
I didn't read any "blame" in his comment. He sort of says, it's too bad these girls have to sit in the dark where the rapists are. 
Regardless, you are right: if a woman is sexually assaulted, it was not because the room was dark... or light.
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