Wesley Hunt: “The green new deal does to Houston is tantamount to what…”

“I think, you know, right now the biggest issue that we have is making sure that we preserve the oil and gas jobs here in Houston, Texas, and what The green new deal does to Houston is tantamount to what happened in Pittsburgh when the steel industry left and to Detroit when automotive industry left. And right now we are having an honest conversation about about fossil fuels and about hydrocarbons and about how we can integrate them and use them to preserv this earth …” (02:33–02:42)

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