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Chris Wright: “55 ships two days ago, as you said, 67 went through…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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'Americans can expect continued declines in energy prices': Chris Wright

Published | Video Starts at 01:02

What is the status? Are we partially opened? Is there really? When do we get back to the levels that we had before the war? Well, 55 ships two days ago, as you said, 67 went through yesterday on an oil and oil products volumes about equal to where we were before the war. But there's three channels through the straits. There's the middle normal navigational channel that unfortunately the Iranians have mined, so that needs to be demined. (01:02–01:15)

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Asserts that 67 ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, with oil volumes equal to pre-war levels.

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