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Derrick Van Orden: “The technology simply is not there yet.”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Rep. Derrick Van Orden Discusses Israel Hostages, Hunter Biden, Biden EV Push on Mornings with Maria

Published | Video Starts at 08:47

Joe Biden is the greatest proponent for the coal industry of any president in modern history because all of the electricity that's going to go into those cars is produced by coal plants. That's reality. The technology simply is not there yet. We all want our grandchildren and we're having our 12th one, by the way. We all want our grandchildren to have energy, but we have to understand we have children right now. (08:47–08:51)

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Asserts that current technology is insufficient for the Biden administration's energy goals.

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