Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Biden administration was driving energy systems “into a ditch” through massive subsidies to unreliable sources like solar power and draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Wright appeared with his wife, Liz, on “The Katie Miller Podcast” Tuesday, where he criticized former President Joe Biden’s energy policies for having a profound effect on the rest of the country.

“If you get energy wrong, you destroy your society,” Wright said.

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“Another reason I think President Trump won, you know, the Biden administration literally wanted to drive our energy system into the ditch,” he added. “Just outrageous. We, fortunately, pivoted before too much deep damage. But we’ve wasted trillions of dollars. We need to repair the energy infrastructure in the Gulf. If the damage grows, it just means energy prices are going to be higher for longer after it.”

Wright also dismissed concerns about falling behind major countries like China regarding sources like solar power, pointing out that losing all solar power “wouldn’t even be a hiccup” for the country.

“If you wiped all the solar panels off the planet tomorrow, no one would notice. We were losing 10% of sort of global oil production today. It is a massive crisis. If all of the solar was zeroed out tomorrow, the world would lose 1.2% of energy,” Wright said.

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He emphasized that while he is generally “pro-solar,” having worked in the solar industry, he was against subsidies to less reliable sources that drive up electricity prices. Wright instead suggested that nuclear power has a “very bright future” despite being “unfairly maligned” by climate activists.

“It’s so much easier to sell fear than to sell reassurance,” Wright said. “You know, that’s the asymmetry in politics and activism… But the environmental industry really has become sort of a fear-selling industry. And boy, you can raise billions of dollars to scare people about things like nuclear power or climate change, where there’s like a kernel of something there, but they’re just wildly exaggerated. And unfortunately, it’s been effective.”

He further criticized the Biden administration for draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gas prices and “do well” during the 2022 midterm elections while praising the Trump administration’s efforts to replenish it.

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“At the end of next year, we’ll have more oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve than we did when President Trump took office, meaningfully more oil than when he took office,” Wright said.

Biden’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Wright has been critical of the Biden administration since he began his position as President Donald Trump’s energy secretary last year. In May, he claimed that the Biden administration “strangled” the state of Alaska with more regulations than North Korea, Iran and Venezuela combined. 

“Alaska, a state that has had more sanctions, more restrictions on production of oil and gas in Alaska than everything we did to Iran and Venezuela and North Korea if they produced any combined,” he said. “You know, the last administration just strangled Alaska. This awesome state of immense natural resources.”

A Connecticut judge has declared a mistrial in the case involving an 11-year-old girl who was raped and killed over a revelation involving decades-old evidence. 

Marc Karun, 60, was on trial on murder and kidnapping charges stemming from the alleged killing of Kathleen Flynn, according to FOX 61. 

Flynn, a sixth grader, was reportedly walking home from Ponus Ridge Middle School in Norwalk when she was attacked on Sept. 23, 1986. Her body was found in the woods along a path to nearby Hunters Lane.  

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While the case ran cold for a period of time, Karun was taken into custody at his home in Stetson, Maine in 2019.

During Karun’s trial in Stamford last week, prosecutors revealed that they received an email from retired Norwalk police lieutenant Robert Fabrizzio disclosing that shortly after Flynn’s body was discovered, a state crime lab officer informed him that she had been disposed of in a used body bag, FOX 61 reported. 

Fabrizzio reportedly informed prosecutors that he was concerned about the possibility of evidence contamination in the case, leading Judge John Blawie to declare a mistrial – though he did not dismiss the charges against Karun.

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The state crime lab officer who made the revelation about the body bag was 87-year-old Henry Lee, a famous forensic scientist who previously worked on the O.J. Simpson murder trial and worked as the head of the lab at the time, according to FOX 61. 

Lee died last month.

“We’re obviously disappointed by this turn of events, especially for the family members of Kathy Flynn, who have waited 40 years for justice and some degree of closure,” State Attorney Paul Ferencek said in a statement, FOX 61 reported.  

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Prosecutors are now working with the medical examiner’s office and state crime lab to verify if the revelation is true.

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The information surrounding the body bag was reportedly a surprise to crime lab officials, agency spokesperson Rick Green said.

“This is all a surprise to us. We stand by our testimony in the case,” Green said in a statement to Fox News Digital, adding the agency has no further comment.

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Karun previously served 10 years behind bars after being convicted of sexually assaulting or kidnapping four other female victims throughout the 1980s, FOX 61 reported.

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DNA testing technology advancements and the case’s similarities to Karun’s other attacks reportedly lead investigators to take him into custody in 2019. 

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Shortly after Karun’s arrest, police found nearly 90 guns inside his Maine home, which he was barred from owning as a convicted felon, according to FOX 61.

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In 2024, he pleaded guilty to federal gun charges stemming from the allegations and is set to be sentenced this summer. 

Karun remains in custody on a $5 million bond. 

The State’s Attorney’s Office and Karun’s defense counsel did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

A previously-deleted video of far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker launching several F-bombs against a Vietnamese refugee resurfaced on X Tuesday.

The video featured Piker reacting on a livestream to a 2020 BBC video featuring Vietnamese refugee Bach Hac explaining why her community largely supported President Donald Trump.

“As Vietnamese refugees, we have endured suffering under the communist regime,” she said.

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Her comments set off Piker, who had previously described communism as the “end goal” of socialism, leading him to blast Hac and tell her to “go back” to South Vietnam.

“F— you, dude,” Piker said. “I mean, seriously. F— you old lady. Shut the f— up you stupid f—— idiotic old lady with your stupid f—— gamer headset. Who has f—ed you harder, America or f—— Ho Chi Minh? Suck my d— old lady. Goddamn dude. F— this refugee. F— this South Vietnamese motherf——, whatever, like Christian supremacist psychotic f—— refugee living in America now and able to talk that s—. Why don’t you go back and live in f—— South Vietnam in the same conditions if that’s your perspective?”

When Piker addressed comments telling him to “be careful,” Piker doubled down on his attack.

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“I f—— hate these people, dude,” Piker said.

The video appears to have been taken from one of Piker’s livestreams and has since been deleted, though it is unclear when.

Fox News Digital reached out to Piker for comment.

Piker has become a growing influential figure within the Democratic Party, scheduling campaign events with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Pennsylvania Rep. Summer Lee. Progressive stars like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have also appeared on Piker’s show.

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This support came despite Piker’s history of controversial statements, such as claiming America “deserved” 9/11 or his efforts to downplay the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. He has been quoted claiming Hamas was “a thousand times better than the fascist settler colonial apartheid state” of Israel and that it “doesn’t matter if f—— rapes happened on October 7.”

Other Democratic politicians have criticized Piker as antisemitic and have called on the party to distance itself from the Twitch streamer.