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Chris Wright: “Natural gas has lower greenhouse gas emissions [than oil].”

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 19:40

Natural gas is much cheaper than oil. It burns cleaner than oil, and when I say clean, I mean pollutants burns cleaner and it Natural gas has lower greenhouse gas emissions [than oil]. a separate issue, but it wins on all those categories. And it's massively cheaper. But you need infrastructure, pipelines, liquefaction, and the ability to move it around the world. (19:40–19:43)

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Asserts that natural gas emits fewer greenhouse gases than oil.

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