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Chris Wright: “We just had a very cold spell in the United States. In fact…”

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 23:06

And we paid the same amount for electricity that you don't know if it's going to be there, might be there, might not be there. We just had a very cold spell in the United States. In fact, we had the largest ever draw, one week draw out of natural gas ever in United States history. And that's significant because natural gas is the number one heating fuel in the United States and it's by far our largest source of electricity. So we had a widespread large coal front. (23:06–23:16)

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Asserts that the U.S. recently experienced the largest one-week draw of natural gas in its history.

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