Chris Wright: “But of course, that takes the cooperation of state politicians and state regulators to work.”

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?

He was well aware of the risk to energy flows that were coming out of the Persian Gulf region.

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…

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