The last time we checked on Chris Wright, President Donald Trump had tapped the CEO of an innovative fracking company to be the new Secretary of Energy.
Wright’s appointment was on-brand for Trump’s new template for candidates: innovative, open to new energy development approaches, and unconnected to the Deep State.
And while the press was focused on the collapse of the USAID slush fund, Wright got to work on enacting Trump’s ambitious energy agenda.
In a wide-ranging departmental order late Wednesday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called energy “the essential ingredient that enables everything we do” and ordered changes to how the agency will approach home appliances, nuclear power, gas exports and more.”A highly energized society can bring health, wealth and opportunity for all,” Wright said in the order, obtained by Fox News Digital….Wright crafted a mantra of “Advance Energy Addition – Not Subratction” and noted how “great attention has been paid to the pursuing of a zero-carbon future.””Net Zero policies raise energy costs for American families and businesses, threaten the reliability of the energy system and undermine our energy and national security,” he said, signaling he would dispatch with such ‘green’ initiatives.
His to-do list includes refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which was drained by the Biden administration.
As President Trump has stated, the SPR is a national asset that protects our security in times of crisis. It must be refilled. Unfortunately, the SPR is currently at historically low levels. We will not permit this to become a new status quo. Moreover, the Department will review SPR infrastructure and develop appropriate plans to safeguard this important strategic asset.
Completely ending Biden’s War on Appliances and assuring Americans have a full range of market-based choices will also be part of the agenda.
The DOE’s order also outlines a plan to begin a comprehensive review of the agency’s Appliance Standards Program to make home appliances and products more affordable for Americans and promote consumer choice for appliances. The Biden-Harris administration led a push toward regulating the use of certain gas appliances, including introducing several stringent efficiency rules for gas stoves and some water heaters.
Making American Gas Affordable may be an apt motto for the Energy Department under Wright.
We’ve had four years of an administration that’s done everything it could to raise the cost to produce a barrel of oil. There’s been a lot of nonsense.The agenda of this administration, this president, is to bring back common sense.
All of this is happening as Department of Government Efficiency staff begin their work at the Energy Department..
There appears to be less drama there than at other agencies… so far.
DOGE staffers who are working at the Department of Energy do not have access to U.S. nuclear secrets, Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC in an interview Friday.“I’ve heard these rumors. They’re like seeing our nuclear secrets. None of that is true at all,” Wright told CNBC’s Brian Sullivan in an exclusive interview. One of the core responsibilities of the department is maintaining and modernizing the U.S. nuclear stockpile.The secretary said three staffers from the Elon Musk-led advisory team that the Trump administration calls the Department of Government Efficiency are working in the Energy Department’s offices.“I know exactly who they are,” the secretary said. “They run through, checked by our security, and they have access to look around, talk to people and give us some good feedback on how things are going.”
Finally, for those complaining about the brave, young men of DOGE reviewing government operations, I will note that they appear far more sane, trustworthy, and reliable than those appointed by Biden… especially the one who was in charge of our nuclear waste.
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