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Chris Wright: “We passed a very small amount of money to help refurbish and…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 09:49

But yet we subsidize fossil fuels. But we're cutting all subsidies to renewables. How do we subsidize fossil fuels? There definitely is subsidies for coal and for natural gas that Congress currently subsidizes. We passed a very small amount of money to help refurbish and upgrade coal plants. But I hear from environmentalists all the time these massive subsidies of, of, of of fossil fuels. I'm wondering where they are and what they are because we, the short answer is we don't. (09:49–09:55)

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