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Chris Wright: “We tripled United States oil production. We more than…”

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

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Chris & Liz Wright on Iran, Solar, Nuclear, & Card Counting | KMP Ep.34

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The infrastructure is probably the biggest challenge. The biggest challenge. But if you look at the last 20 years, We tripled United States oil production. We more than doubled United States natural gas production. Those are. Those two energy sources are well over 70% of US energy, but yet we barely grew our electricity production. That's a regulatory problem. There's just too many regulatory layers. (20:14–20:21)

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