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Chris Wright: “Natural gas prices, which is by far our largest industrial…”

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 44:17

When you say energy, you mean electricity prices or energy across the board? Across the board. I mean it takes all sorts of energy to inputs to refine and extract. Yes, yes. Well, I would say Natural gas prices, which is by far our largest industrial fuel for industrial processes, are very low in the United States, pretty much the lowest in the world. Canada's got stranded gas, but we have very low cost industrial heat and chemicals for petrochemicals and fertilizers and all that. But we don't have as low cost electricity as we should have. (44:17–44:28)

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