Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran will likely end in a matter of weeks and signaled that he expects skyrocketing oil prices to come down after that.
“Americans are feeling it right now. Americans will feel it for a few more weeks,” Wright told NBC’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “But at the end, we will have removed the greatest risk to global energy supplies. We’ll go to a world more abundant in energy, more affordable in energy, and less risky for American soldiers and commerce in the Middle East.”
“I think that’s the likely time frame,” he added, when asked if “a few more weeks” reflected his expectations for the duration of the war.
Trump said last week the war was “pretty well complete,” although the president told Welker in a Saturday interview that Iran is ready to make a deal to end the war but he would not accept it “because the terms aren’t good enough yet.”