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Chris Wright: “Hundreds of Americans would have died if [Biden's] plans to…”

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

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Secretary of Energy Chris Wright talks gas prices, energy rates and cost-of-living worries

Published | Video Starts at 08:43

You account for the health costs that are associated with those issues? Absolutely we do. And I'm confident that in that winter storm firm we just had hundreds of Americans, hundreds, Hundreds of Americans would have died if [Biden's] plans to close 17 gigawatts of coal had been implemented. If we didn't let that happen, we could not have kept lights on on that historic cold spell that's that that kills hundreds of people. (08:43–08:56)

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Asserts that closing 17 gigawatts of coal would have resulted in hundreds of deaths during a winter storm.

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