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Chris Wright: “We've had 100 years of declining real price of electricity…”

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Published | Video Starts at 20:47

But I also fully understand that many Americans who are very frustrated by the rapid rise they've seen recently in the price of electricity, which by the way never should have happened. We've had 100 years of declining real price of electricity until we got into these quote unquote climate policies that have driven energy prices the other way. So people are skeptical. Oh my gosh, this is going to further add insult to injury and drive up my energy prices. (20:47–20:57)

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Asserts that real electricity prices declined for 100 years until recent climate policies reversed the trend.

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