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Wesley Hunt: “We are asking Venezuela and Iran for dirty oil.”

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

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Real America Season 2, Episode 10 Texas Congressional Candidate Wesley Hunt.

Published | Video Starts at 14:38

The reason why we have reduced our carbon over the course of the past decade every single year is because of natural gas. We're sitting on the Permian Basin right now. We have the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania right now. And We are asking Venezuela and Iran for dirty oil. It makes absolutely no sense. So we need to take a more common approach to this and realize that we all want to get to that next abundant source of energy that's actually affordable for the world. (14:38–14:41)

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