The future president of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced this Saturday the nomination of oilman and Republican mega-donor Chris Wright as Secretary of Energy.
In a press release, the Republican indicated that with the election of Wright, at the head of the oil services group Freedom Energy – based in Denver, Colorado, seeks to improve private sector investment and American “energy dominance” to “reduce inflation and win the American arms race”. Artificial intelligence with China and expand the country’s diplomatic power.
Wright should support Trump’s plan to maximize oil and gas productionand looking for ways to increase electricity production, demand for which is increasing for the first time in decades.
He is also likely to share Trump’s opposition to global cooperation in the fight against climate change. Wright called activists fighting global warming alarmists and compared Democrats’ efforts to combat the problem. with communism Soviet style.
“There is no climate crisisnor are we in the middle of an energy transition,” Wright said in a video posted to his LinkedIn profile last year.
Wright, who has no political experience, has written extensively on the need for increase fossil fuel production to lift people out of poverty.
He stood out among oil and gas executives for his uninhibited style and describes himself as a technology lover.
He drank fracking fluid
Wright gained media attention in 2019 when drank liquid hydraulic fracturing or even hydrofracturing in a chamber to prove that it was not dangerous.
THE oil production in the United States reached the highest level ever achieved by any country under the Biden administration, and It’s unclear how much they could raise Wright and the new administration this figure.
Most drilling decisions are motivated by private companies who work on land not owned by the federal government.
The Department of Energy manages U.S. energy diplomacy, administers the Strategic Petroleum Reserve — which Trump has said he wants to reconstitute — and runs grant and loan programs to advance energy technologies, like the Office of Loan Programs.
The secretary also oversees the North American country’s aging nuclear weapons complex, the nuclear waste disposal and 17 national laboratories.
If confirmed by the Senate, Wright will replace Jennifer Granholmadvocate of electric vehicles, emerging energy sources such as geothermal energy, and supporter of carbon-free wind, solar, and nuclear power.
Wright will also likely be involved in the authorization of electricity transmission and the development of nuclear power, an energy source that He is popular among Republicans and Democrats.but it is expensive and complicated to authorize.
Energy demand in the United States is increasing for the first time in two decades, amid growth in artificial intelligence, electric vehicles and cryptocurrencies.
