← Videos · Energy & Permitting

Secretary Wright Gives Bret Baier a Six-Month Energy Report at the Department of Energy

July 22, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:16:44

Embedded from the source channel — never re-uploaded. Watch on YouTube

What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright hosted Bret Baier for a special at the Department of Energy on July 22, 2025, according to the department’s video, six months into the job.

Wright called reversing the prior administration’s halt on natural gas export permits an early success, saying natural gas is the fastest-growing source of energy on the planet and the fastest-growing U.S. export, and the United States is by far the world’s biggest gas producer, as he stated it. He said the permit stop was bad for allies, the country and the economy, and that reversing such policies quickly was empowering, as he put it.

Wright named the electricity grid his biggest challenge — the world’s most complicated machine, as he called it — saying the prior trajectory would have left the United States unable to lead in AI and soon facing massive blackouts, and that his department works seven days a week to reverse it, as he described the effort. He said private capital must expand grid capacity so AI power can be delivered without large price increases for consumers, as he argued.

Baier played a July 8 statement in which Wright said gasoline prices were the lowest in four years and, inflation-adjusted and excluding the COVID year, the lowest in 20 years, as the clip carried it. Baier noted gas was up 1.4% since election day and 6% since inauguration day, as he stated the figures, pressing Wright on the numbers as the segment continued.

Why it matters

The sit-down is Wright’s six-month self-assessment: LNG permitting as the win, the grid as the worry, and gasoline prices as the contested proof point.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Bret Baier for Special at the Department of Energy – July 22, 2025”, 2025-07-22 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-07-22). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.