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Ruben Gallego: “We're going to have to go and now retrofit generators and…”

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

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

Published | Video Starts at 19:48

Right. When again this president is gone and coal is extremely, extremely expensive. Hard to maintain, getting smaller, smaller supply. 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 … (19:48–20:00)

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Asserts that delayed energy infrastructure updates will be costly.

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