Chris Wright: “Energy is different,' Wright said. 'It’s just central to economies to security to foreign relations.”

“This is a time for a coordinated release of diesel stores as we go into to harvest season and we go into winter heating oil season,”

Energy has 'become a fabric of international discussion,' Wright told the Washington Examiner while on an early September flight from Venezuela to Washington.

If you start putting barriers on flows, pretty quickly you will reduce the production.

“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.