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Chris Wright: “Natural gas is cheaper. It's much cheaper than diesel. Burns…”

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

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Innovators are going to do that. Long haul trucks, right, they run on diesel. What are they going to run in the long run? They're going to run on. Natural gas is cheaper. It's much cheaper than diesel. Burns cleaner, lower pollutants and lower greenhouse gas. I view those as separate. But natural gas displacing diesel, that's. There's going to be lots of business opportunities in that. (44:12–44:20)

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