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Chris Wright: “Gas will probably pass oil and coal in the next 10 or 20…”

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

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How America Can Unleash the Next Energy Revolution: A Fireside Chat with Secretary Chris Wright

Published | Video Starts at 32:22

And today we get a little less than 85% of our energy from coal, oil and gas. The market share has changed. Oil's market share has changed dramatically. Natural gas has grown the fastest. So Gas will probably pass oil and coal in the next 10 or 20 years as the biggest source of energy on the planet. Look, I went to college to work on fusion energy. Super excited about that. We will find pathways to harvest energy out of fusion energy in the next three to 10 years. (32:22–32:29)

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Predicts that natural gas will become the largest energy source globally in the near future.

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