By investing in both coal generation and critical export infrastructure … the Energy Department is strengthening U.S. energy security, reinforcing strategic supply chains, and advancing American energy dominance.
Chris Wright
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of Energy in the Trump administration; founder and former CEO of Liberty Energy.
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October 22, 2026
Lowering costs and unleashing prosperity are top priorities for President Trump.
— Chris Wright
Most widely reported
by number of sources- Americans are united in their desire to supercharge our economy, to increase our national security by keeping our lead in artificial intelligence over China.12 sources2026iowacapitaldispatch.com
- “Energy is life,” Wright said in a news conference near Allentown, where he met with Lehigh Valley leaders.3 sources2026scdailygazette.com
- “Every project is evaluated in economics — Is that going to increase energy supply, drive down energy prices, and increase energy security? Because that’s how America thrives,” Wright said.3 sources2026scdailygazette.com
- “We lost our way, and we started to spend money only based on decarbonization goals, forgetting American people, forgetting taxpayers, forgetting jobs and opportunity,” Wright said.3 sources2026scdailygazette.com
- “We are reallocating funds that were already dedicated towards the United States electricity grid, but just driving them towards reliability and affordability instead of making things more expensive for political posturing,” Wright said.3 sources2026scdailygazette.com
- If his decisions were political, he would have just kicked the can down the road and delivered a nuclear-armed Iran to the next president.2 sources2026cbsnews.com
I’m happy they’re coming down. They’ve gone down the last few weeks, as have diesel prices, and they will continue to come down.
This order will help ensure millions of American families and businesses across the mid-Atlantic have access to affordable, reliable, and secure electricity by making additional power generation, including backup power, available to use as…
There's different ways to look at it. He's always looking, 'How do I lower energy prices? How do I lower heating prices, electricity prices, gasoline prices, diesel prices?
Everything we're doing is to grow the supply of diesel, to grow the supply of gasoline, and frankly, again, to reverse years of policies that have been directed exactly the opposite-to shrink our ability to produce, refine, and deliver…
He knew it was going to elevate energy prices in the short run, he said, 'I'm going to take a hit there, but I got to do the right thing.
I think things are going reasonably well there but the flip side is, you have to look at every wrench you’ve got to bring a murderous conflict to an end.
Not only would ending this war end the killing of tens of thousands of people every month, it would dramatically lower energy prices.