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Chris Wright: “The world runs on oil, gas, and coal. It did when I was…”

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

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Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Venezuela | Energy Pod

Published | Video Starts at 11:28

And Americans, I think, got so Tired of four years of an administration. First of all, who came in saying, I promise I will end fossil fuels. The world runs on oil, gas, and coal. It did when I was born. It will when I die. That's just physics. That's just chemistry. That's just thermodynamics. I've spent my life working on alternative energy sources, nuclear energy, geothermal energy, solar energy, fusion energy. (11:28–11:34)

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Asserts that oil, gas, and coal are and will continue to be primary energy sources.

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