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Chris Wright: “That billion people consume about 13 barrels of oil per…”

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 09:17

We fly on planes and trains and cars. We wear fancy clothes we made with and out of hydrocarbons. We have modern medicine. We have all these great things. That billion people consume about 13 barrels of oil per person per year. The other 7 billion people on planet Earth consume 3 barrels of oil on average per person per year. And in Africa, it's less than one barrel. (09:17–09:23)

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Asserts that the wealthiest billion people consume about 13 barrels of oil per person annually.

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