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Wesley Hunt: “These countries have to get on board with reducing their…”

Featuring: Wesley Hunt, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 38

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Published | Video Starts at 21:02

So if we're trying to address global warming, and the operative word, and global warming is the word globe, we have to get India and China and Russia and South America and Africa. These countries have to get on board with reducing their carbon footprint, or we could destroy the oil and gas industry here in the United States at no gain to the globe. If we stop producing or doing anything in the US For a year, it wouldn't make a difference in the world with what's going on. (21:02–21:12)

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Asserts that reducing the carbon footprint is necessary to avoid harming the U.S. oil and gas industry without global benefit.

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