In a five second-long clip by clip guy Aaron Rupar that’s too brief to justify ripping and putting up on YouTube, Energy Suckretary Chris Wright on Friday told CNBC that something something “…now our oil goes out of the Gulf of Mexico we’ll see more of that going over to China.” Emphasis added on the non-official name for the body of water bounded by five US states totaling 1,700 miles of coastline, northwestern Cuba, and six Mexican states totaling 1,400 miles of coastline. The name “Gulf of Mexico” first appeared on maps in 1550 and by 1672 became the most widely-internationally recognized usage for it when the Spanish Viceroyalty of Mexico was the dominant territorial arc.
The snippet of Wright’s bit separately appeared to be the fruit of a broader fuckup in the boast that American oil is now being sold to China. That’s not actually good for gas prices.