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Updated: Monday, 17 Sep 2012, 10:28 AM EDT
Published : Friday, 14 Sep 2012, 11:43 PM EDT

Dan Klein

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - U.S. Senator Richard Lugar delivered the keynote address at the Fourth-Annual College Energy Summit on Purdue's campus Friday.

Lugar spoke to about 200 people in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse, then answered questions on topics like renewable energy sources and subsidies, climate change and the industrialization of third world countries.

He also talked about Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was killed Tuesday.

Stevens was a staff member in 2006 while Lugar chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and also a very dear friend.

"A brilliant ambassador, so helpful to Libyans," Lugar said. "It was a real personal loss to get that news."

Lugar declined to reveal his plans for when he leaves office in a few months.

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