Energy Secretary Chris Wright took the stage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Wednesday to expound on President Donald Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” philosophy.
Wright, a former energy executive and an enthusiastic advocate for natural gas, began his speech at the conference in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., by asserting that energy supply is what has made modern living standards possible.
“[Energy is] what controls the limits in what’s possible in our lives. Not just us, but everyone around the world,” he said.
“We had 30-year global life expectancy at birth throughout all of human history, all the way up to less than 200 years ago. Today, it’s 73 years,” he added, contending that this was made possible partly by “the explosion in available energy.”
Wright proceeded to criticize the Biden administration’s…
