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Riley Moore: “In 2005, we had the lowest utility rates in the entire…”

Featuring: Riley Moore, Republican | U.S. House West Virginia, District 2

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Rep Riley Moore Joins 'The Hill' on NewsNation to Discuss Rising Energy Costs in West Virginia

Published | Video Starts at 00:22

Like I'm hearing about all these, you know, 7, 8, $900 massive bills for electricity like that. Yeah, look, it's a huge problem and the problem has been created over a long period of time. So In 2005, we had the lowest utility rates in the entire country. But what happened in that intervening period? We had a lot of coal fired power come offline with Obama's war on coal. We had coal plants that were literally dismantled and destroyed. (00:22–00:30)

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Asserts that West Virginia had the lowest utility rates in the U.S. in 2005.

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