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Mandela Barnes: “Unfortunately, we spend so much money out of states, meet…”

Featuring: Mandela Barnes, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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I've talked to higher income people, lower income people who are dealing with this impact all of us. I'm sure you're dealing with it as well in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, we spend so much money out of states, meet our energy needs, we don't generate coal, we don't have coal in the hills, we don't have oil here in Wisconsin. that people drill for. But we do have is resources to expand our natural or, excuse me, to expand our clean energy production. And I think we should take advantage of all of those opportunities. (05:00–05:09)

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Asserts that Wisconsin spends money out of state for energy needs and lacks local coal and oil resources.

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