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Chris Wright: “When Russia invaded Ukraine, there was almost no…”

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

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US Energy Secretary Wright on America's Energy Strategy

Published | Video Starts at 08:36

But the Biden administration, you know, scorned them, said we're going to end the hydrocarbon industry. You know, just that rhetoric, that chilling rhetoric, that shunning of our allies. When Russia invaded Ukraine, there was almost no interruption of flow of Russian crude. There was natural gas via pipeline into Europe, but there was not a meaningful reduction of Russian oil or oil product exports. (08:36–08:43)

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Asserts that Russian crude oil flow was almost uninterrupted during the Ukraine invasion.

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