Chris Wright: “That's $700 million of government funding, but it's matched…”

“Where would we be to re industrialize America? Where would electricity prices be if we had let all of those plants close? But we're not doing it. The all of those plants. That's $700 million of government funding, but it's matched with $1.7 billion of private investment from the owners and operators of those plants. all the people in those states that say, fellow, phew, we don't have to kick our industry out and raise electricity prices again.” (03:48–03:59)

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