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Ruben Gallego: “Instead of trying to reduce our need for oil, especially to…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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'Trump wants us to go back to 1930s': Sen. Ruben Gallego

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We're going to have to go and now retrofit generators and, or any type of adding new generation that we should have years ago. That's going to cost us billions and billions of dollars. Instead of trying to reduce our need for oil, especially to run vehicles, we're going to have to continue to maintain this infrastructure that can be diversified and bring down the cost for those people that are still using traditional gasoline and those for the bring in they're using electric vehicles. And again, that time, the longer you put it off, the more expensive it gets. (20:00–20:20)

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Asserts that maintaining current oil infrastructure without diversification will be costly.

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