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Scott Bessent: “Fracking was invented and now the US has larger reserves…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Published | Video Starts at 28:29

But in the US we were going to run out of everything. Well, we're going to run out of everything, but we were going to run out of the crude and crude derivatives. And then Fracking was invented and now the US has larger reserves than Saudi and Venezuela. On the other side, the imf. I think getting back to this message of stability, of monitoring global imbalances, of stepping in early. (28:29–28:39)

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Asserts that the US has larger oil reserves than Saudi Arabia and Venezuela due to fracking.

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