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 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.

Flight passengers are blasting British Airways after they said they were left stranded for days amid arctic-like temperatures in St. John’s, a city in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Their plane, which departed from London, England, and was headed to Houston, Texas, had an unplanned landing in Newfoundland on Tuesday, March 31, due to a health emergency. 

The plane was then further delayed due to a technical issue, British Airways said of the incident.

“We’re very sorry to our customers for their experience, and we’ve been in touch to offer a gesture to make things right,” British Airways told Fox News Digital in a statement.

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Nevertheless, passengers are still speaking out on social media and in interviews, with many criticizing the airline for what they felt was a chaotic experience.

“Furious is an understatement. We are being told we are now heading to Houston. I won’t believe it ’til we take off,” Jon Shipman of Liverpool, England, told the BBC before his departure.

Temperatures in St. John’s on March 31 were freezing, passengers claimed. 

The high that day was 23 degrees Fahrenheit, while the low was 14 degrees, per WeatherUnderground.

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Shipman was traveling with his family to Texas to see friends who moved to the United States a few years ago. 

He said passengers were notified three hours after takeoff that there was a “grave medical emergency” on board, according to BBC Radio Merseyside. He said the passengers “sat on the plane for three hours.”

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“They then told us the plane had developed a technical issue; then they told us the plane could not be fixed, and we had to be taken off and put up in local hotels.”

He said passengers couldn’t access their luggage. He also claimed he did not receive much assistance from the airline.

“We just sat around waiting for news, and had to speak to local airport staff for help,” Shipman said.

The travelers were extremely frustrated, he added.

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He described a scene in which some travelers were sleeping on the floor.

“Most of the frustration was due to a lack of information. Just be open and explain what’s happening, you know?” Shipman said.

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“We’re not soft. We understand there was a medical emergency. We understand there’s a technical issue.”

Heather McKinnon, general manager at the Delta Hotel in St. John’s, said it was a very tough delay for the 255 passengers. 

But she disputed the claim about “freezing” temperatures at St. John’s that day. 

“It’s hardly frozen,” McKinnon told The Canadian Press. 

“While it was cold that day, and it was wintry the next day, we’re offering warm hospitality. And that’s the main thing, right?”

St. John’s, the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, is one of North America’s oldest cities, located on Canada’s eastern Atlantic coast.

Known for its colorful row houses and historic harbor, it blends maritime heritage with a lively arts and cultural scene, set against rugged coastal landscapes.