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Chris Wright: “By far the fastest growing energy source in the world in…”

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

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🇺🇸 Conference with Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Published | Video Starts at 20:04

And it's massively cheaper. But you need infrastructure, pipelines, liquefaction, and the ability to move it around the world. But when I looked at energy from that 2010 period to today, By far the fastest growing energy source in the world in absolute terms is natural gas. Coal and oil are second and third, but natural gas is the fastest growing energy source. You go back 50 years ago, as he said, we got 83% of our energy from hydrocarbons. (20:04–20:10)

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Asserts that natural gas is the fastest growing energy source globally in absolute terms.

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