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Secretary Wright on Fox & Friends: Record Drilling, Gas Prices and Blue-State Electricity Rates

December 10, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:05:15

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright joined Fox & Friends on December 10, 2025, the morning after traveling with President Trump to Pennsylvania for the president’s affordability pitch. Wright said people are frustrated that prices are high and the president fully gets it; he argued the administration has spent every day reversing the prior administration’s policies to drive prices down, while conceding some results take time.

Wright said gas prices are at a four-and-a-half-year low, below $3 for the first time in a long time, as he stated it. On electricity, he said the prior administration would not let anyone build reliable generation and forced coal and natural gas plant closures; stopping that destruction is quick, he said, but building new capacity carries lag times before everyone feels the benefits. He predicted the things being done now would be felt more the following year than this year.

On diesel, Wright blamed the Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine’s attacks on Russian refining infrastructure have cut Russian diesel exports and tightened the diesel market more than gasoline, he said, adding that ending the war or growing American refining capacity are the two paths down. On governors freezing utility rates, he compared the tactic to rent control, saying it stops new construction. He said electricity prices have risen very fast in blue states with restrictive renewable portfolio standards and have risen less than the rate of inflation in red states, and that the U.S. has ramped up natural gas production and exports to become Europe’s number one supplier, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The interview is the Energy Department’s affordability defense in miniature — current price claims, a red-state/blue-state rate comparison, and a promise that the bigger effects arrive the following year.

Scoreboard watch

Wright’s claims — gas prices at a four-and-a-half-year low and below $3, and electricity prices rising less than inflation in red states — are checkable figures for the scoreboard.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Fox & Friends – December 10, 2025”, 2025-12-10 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-12-10). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.