In a harsh speech made just days before the pivotal midterm elections, Sen. Joe Manchin on Saturday requested President Biden’s apology for claiming that coal facilities “all across America” will be shut down, Fox News informed.
According to Manchin, D-W.Va., President Biden’s remarks are not only ridiculous and unrealistic, but they also fail to acknowledge the enormous economic hardship that the American people are experiencing as a result of increased gasoline prices.
He adds, that comments like these are the cause the American people to lose trust in President Biden and instead they believe he does not grasp the necessity for an all-encompassing energy policy that will keep our country completely energy independent and secure.
Manchin said that it appears that his beliefs fluctuate according on the audience and the current political climate. Politicizing the country’s energy policies will only lead to price increases and greater suffering for the American people.
On Friday, Biden claimed that operating coal facilities was too expensive and predicted that renewable energy sources will take their place.
According to Biden, no one was constructing new coal-fired power facilities because they couldn’t rely on it. even if they had enough guaranteed coal for the remainder of the plant’s existence.
Therefore, Biden continued, it will become a wind generating.
He added that closing down these facilities across America and switching to wind and solar energy will save them a ton of money while using the same transmission line that was previously used to transfer coal-fired electricity.
Manchin has frequently criticized the Biden administration’s energy policies despite the fact that his state has a long history with the coal industry.
However, Manchin’s remarks Saturday arrives only days before a pivotal midterm election in which Democrats and Republicans are locked in a dead heat for control of the Senate.
Manchin has been politely courted to join the GOP for years by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, and former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., left the Democrats after the 1994 midterm defeat and joined the GOP shortly after the GOP won the Senate.
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