Trump's Energy Secretary Melts Down Over Gas Prices
Trump's Energy Secretary Chris Wright went on multiple Sunday shows and fell apart when questioned about gas prices.
It was just three weeks ago that Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright went on CNN’s State Of The Union and said that gas prices could be below $3 a gallon by the end of the year.
Wright said, "It could happen later this year, that might not happen until next year. But prices have likely peaked, and they'll start going down. Certainly, with the resolution of this conflict, you’ll see prices go down."
Four weeks ago, the national average for a gallon of gasoline was $4.15. Now it is $4.52. Gas has gone up at least twenty-five cents a gallon in each of the last two weeks.
The price had definitely not peaked.
For some god-forsaken reason, the Trump administration decided to send its Energy Secretary back on the Sunday shows, and even the Republican leaning corporate media shows could not pass up the low-hanging fruit of asking Wright about gas prices.
Wright went on Meet The Press where Kristen Welker asked, “Just to go back to this central question, though, do you anticipate gas prices will drop below $3 a gallon this year?
Wright said:
I can’t make predictions about that. I can say that when we start to get free flow of traffic through the Straits of Hormuz, energy prices will come down. And by ending Iran’s ability to get a nuclear weapon, they are the biggest threat in the world to the flow of global energy. They’ve killed more American soldiers over the last two decades than any other power. They’re the giant force of destabilization.
They’re the largest sponsor of terrorism around the planet. So ending Iran’s nuclear program, that is massively positive for the flow of energy, meaning more energy will flow in the future, meaning lower energy prices for Americans and the rest of the world. Long-term this is a great move, short-term it’s causing some discomfort.
That would be a no, but Wright also buried any hope that Republicans had of an optimistic message.
