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Wright Says U.S. Can Displace All Russian Gas to Europe, Backs Trump's UN Climate Remarks

September 24, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:08:05

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright joined Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer on Fox News on September 24, 2025, the day after President Trump’s UN address criticizing NATO allies for continuing to buy Russian energy. Wright said Europe is taking action to displace Russian energy, though not as fast as the administration would like, and that America stands ready today to displace all of the Russian gas going into Europe and all Russian refined oil products as well. He said he had spent six days in Europe meeting leaders and assuring them the United States has the capacity. Pressed on the EU’s plan to end Russian LNG imports in January 2027, a sixteen-month wind-down, Wright said it should happen much faster because unsold pipeline gas is simply lost revenue for Putin; the hosts put that revenue at $20 billion over sixteen months and Wright agreed it would be something like that or more, as the exchange stated it.

Wright said President Trump is ready to move on sanctions but that sanctions require consensus among all parties. He said Turkey, Slovakia and Hungary still buy Russian oil, as the hosts listed them, and described Turkey as a power broker that has played both sides; he said he had met Turkish energy officials, that the U.S. can replace all Russian energy into Turkey with American energy, and that the ultimate decision is a political one between President Erdogan and President Trump.

The segment also played Trump’s UN remarks calling climate change a con job and warning countries against the “green scam.” Wright said the reaction to climate change has been a scam, that the world has spent trillions to raise energy prices and move jobs out of Europe and the United States without moving emissions, and that the room was silent while Trump spoke. He said African delegations loved the message after years of being told they could not develop.

Why it matters

The interview states the administration’s energy-as-leverage doctrine in one place: U.S. supply offered as the replacement that makes faster allied sanctions on Russian energy possible.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer on Fox News – September 24, 2025”, 2025-09-24 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-09-24). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.