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Chris Wright: “We've invested over the last 10 or 20 years a massive amount…”

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

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

Published | Video Starts at 06:48

Affordability is always an issue and especially a big issue for American, the American people. What is your plan to scale up power fast without sending people's energy bills through the roof? Yes. And look, We've invested over the last 10 or 20 years a massive amount of money, 33 years now of subsidizing wind power and mid 20 years subsidizing solar energy. I worked on solar energy in graduate school, designed remote applications for it. It has a role to play. (06:48–07:02)

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Claims the U.S. has subsidized wind power for 33 years and solar energy for about 20 years.

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