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Shelley Moore Capito: “Coal has had a major role [in providing energy] along with…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Published | Video Starts at 07:44

Practically over the last two to three weeks we've had these amazingly low temperatures. If you look at the energy, who's providing the energy to warm our homes? What, what source? Coal has had a major role [in providing energy] along with natural gas and nuclear. And so we have to preserve these baseload energy availabilities to do a lot of things, but just the basic needs of, of heating our homes and making sure that our hospitals are open, all of these things. (07:44–07:49)

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Asserts that coal, along with natural gas and nuclear, has played a major role in energy provision.

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