Chris Wright: “You should see it below $6 before too long.”

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…

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.

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.