Best of the Program | Guests: Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Sec. Chris Wright | 7/30/26

**Glenn Beck** (0:00)
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**Glenn Beck** (1:44)
Energy Secretary Chris Wright, how are you, sir?

**Chris Wright** (1:46)
Hey, I'm doing well, Glenn. How are you? Great to be here.

**Glenn Beck** (1:49)
I'm great. I'm great. Thank you so much for coming on. I've got so many things I want to talk to you about in so little time.
Let me just start. I sat on the air a couple of days ago.
Donald Trump is the fastest builder of anything. I watched him build things in New York City. I couldn't believe how fast he could get things done and quality. We built the Empire State Building in under a year, 11 months. Is there a way and would it make a difference on price to build more oil refineries, especially for light, sweet, crude? And could we get it done and push it through quickly enough to make a difference?

**Chris Wright** (2:30)
Well, we do have a new light, sweet, crude refinery planned to be built in South Texas. It'll be the first new refinery built in the US in over 50 years, but it does take a few years to build. So it won't impact gasoline or diesel prices in the near term, but it's a hugely positive message to the market that a new refinery is coming, tuned exactly for the kind of crude we're producing in South Texas in the Permian Basin of West Texas. It'll be a great new addition.

**Glenn Beck** (3:01)
Well, here's what people don't understand, and I know you've explained it before, but I'm just looking for solutions to this because people don't understand. We have all of this oil and it's light, sweet, crude. Most of the stuff is dirty that our refinery is only the heavy crude. We'll process it.
We're in a situation where America may need fuel more than just for cheap purposes, with our strategic oil reserve being as low as it is. Are we doing absolutely everything we can to make sure that America is not behind the eight ball in case we're at war?

**Chris Wright** (3:41)
We are. Glenn, relative to everyone else, we're in the best shape of any country in the world. We are a meaningful net exporter of oil, a meaningful net exporter of diesel and jet fuel, but we actually import gasoline, because the United States consumes a greater percent of our oil in the form of gasoline than the rest of the world. So we do have trade with the world, but we are a meaningful net exporter. Our refineries are running at record high output right now.
Yeah, I'm frustrated, as is the president, that gasoline prices are higher than we'd like, but they're still a dollar a gallon cheaper than they were four years ago during the Biden administration, when there wasn't an interruption of energy flows around the world. So it may not feel great, but we're doing well given the circumstances, and I'm proud of our president standing up to Iran and ending just an emerging threat to the world with Iran's race to nuclear weapons.