How can we return the bloated and misdirected U.S. Department of Energy to its original purpose of ensuring affordable and reliable energy for the United States?The answer is a very knowledgeable and successful energy and appointing a producer to the post of Energy Secretary. Donald Trump made Chris Wright the perfect choice.
Chris Wright, a mechanical and electrical engineer by training, is one of the men most responsible for the fracking revolution that liberated America from the whims of hostile oil producing nations like Iran and Venezuela. He currently serves as CEO of Liberty Energy, an oil and natural gas services company at the forefront of American oil and natural gas production. He also serves on the board of directors of Oklo Inc., an advanced nuclear technology company.
Under President Trump and the administration of Chris Wright, American energy policy will once again take its energy destiny into its own hands.
In other words, Wright has significant knowledge and experience with a wide range of energy sources and technologies, and a track record of success in bringing these energy options to market.
Perhaps the most appealing thing about Wright is that he does not bow to pressure tactics from left-wing climate change and environmental activist groups. “There is no climate crisis, and we are not in the midst of an energy transition,” Wright wrote on his LinkedIn page. In response to left-wing fearmongering, Wright provided a visual explanation that drinking fracking fluid in public is not dangerous.
Wright represents an America that dictates energy policy to the rest of the world, rather than being a prisoner of it. America has more oil, coal, and natural gas resources than any other country on earth, but we rarely act like we do. Government policy under Barack Obama and Joe Biden was to limit American energy production based on climate change rationales and then implore countries like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to export more oil. It was. Under President Trump and the administration of Chris Wright, American energy policy will once again take its energy destiny into its own hands.
The advantage of abundant domestic energy production is that in the event of a Middle East crisis, or if OPEC decides to tighten oil production, the country that will benefit most from rising prices will be the United States rather than Russia, Iran, or Venezuela. . Increased U.S. energy production means prices are likely to return to Trump-era lows, but foreign events that put pressure on energy markets will benefit the U.S. rather than other countries.
Under Wright, the U.S. Department of Energy will focus on promoting affordable and reliable U.S. energy, rather than creating large, ineffective tycoons to herald the virtues of climate change. Probably. This is in stark contrast to the Department of Energy under the Biden administration and current Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.
Granholm is a career politician and partisan Democrat best known for his hypercaffeinated speeches at the 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions. The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate confirmed Granholm as energy secretary in 2021, even though he had no specialized experience or knowledge on energy issues. The results were as expected.
Biden and Granholm DOE's website lists climate change as DOE's “top priority” and says that instead of ensuring affordable and reliable energy for the United States, all DOE programs and DOE funding will be focused on climate change. I'm proud of the amount of money I spend on it. Yes, the share of wind and solar power in America's electricity mix has increased from 11% in 2020 to 15% in 2024. Adding this expensive and unreliable energy to the electricity mix has resulted in electricity prices rising by a staggering 23% under the Biden administration. -Granholm, whose rate of increase was less than 1% a year in the decade before Biden and Granholm.
Biden-Granholm's impact on gas prices is even more severe. Gas prices averaged just $2.48 during the Trump administration. Under the Biden-Granholm administration, the average price was $3.45, 39% higher than under the Trump administration.
Americans gave Donald Trump the mission to stop runaway energy. Americans want affordable and reliable energy, not virtue signaling from climate change. With a Department of Energy under the vision and leadership of Chris Wright, America will once again regain energy affordability and energy dominance. Wright is the perfect person for the job.
Editor's note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolicy and made available via RealClearWire.
