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Chris Wright: “Oil is still the world's largest primary source of energy by…”

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

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The AI Race: Why the Future of Power Is at Stake with U.S. Energy Secretary, Chris Wright

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Huge opportunities in there. Different technologies for plants, different thermal efficiencies. A lot of room, I think, to win in that space. Oil is still the world's largest primary source of energy by a fair margin globally and will be for the rest of our lives. Oil is much more expensive than gas, but it's just incredibly flexible. You can transport in a truck, on a ship and a pipeline, you can make plastics, you can make roads, you can make data, you can make anything out of it. (43:27–43:35)

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Asserts that oil remains the largest primary energy source globally and will continue to be so.

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