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Wright Discusses Gas Prices, Snake River Dams, and Data-Center Demand on America Reports

December 5, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:04:50

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright joined Fox News’s America Reports on December 5, 2025 from the Hanford Environmental Cleanup Site in Washington State, after touring the Lower Snake River dams, according to the Department of Energy. On gas prices, Wright noted oil down 23 percent since President Trump took office and gas down 5 percent, as stated in the segment, and attributed the gap to refining, distribution, and taxes, contrasting average prices near $2 in parts of the country with $4.50 in California and $4.40 in Washington, as he stated the figures.

On AI demand — server farms took 4.4 percent of U.S. electricity last year, projected at 6.7 to 12 percent by 2028, as stated in the segment — Wright said data-center investment is great news that will drive electricity prices down, arguing states that produced more electricity than five years earlier, like North Dakota, Texas, and Nebraska, had reduced or contained prices, while states producing less, like California, New York, Massachusetts, and Colorado, saw prices rise, as he stated it.

On the dams, Wright said President Trump pulled the United States out of an agreement he attributed to the prior administration with environmental groups that would ultimately take down four large Snake River hydro dams, that the administration will not take them down and wants to increase U.S. hydro production, and that it supports a Senate-passed Build More Hydro bill in the House, as he stated it. He also cited proposed CAFE standards of 34.5 versus a 50.4 target, as stated in the segment, and said the administration is stopping coal and natural gas plant closures, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The segment pairs a facilities decision — keeping the four Snake River dams Wright had just toured — with his production-growth theory of electricity prices, both stated on the record from the site itself.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Chris Wright Joins Fox News’s America Reports – December 5, 2025”, 2025-12-05 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-12-05). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.