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Chris Wright: “In the United States, only in Hawaii and New England…”

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

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Chris Wright: Not the Plan to Put Boots on the Ground

Published | Video Starts at 11:25

The world in a billion people live a lifestyle like you and I do. And 7 billion people want to live a lifestyle like you and I. The world needs massively more energy of all different kinds. In the United States, only in Hawaii and New England, because of crazy policies, do we ever use oil to generate electricity. It's used for different things that nuclear plants that we're going to build right now, they're going to generate electricity. That's not even in the same energy realm of oil. (11:25–11:33)

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Claims that only Hawaii and New England use oil for electricity generation due to certain policies.

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