Manchin says he's reluctant to support the proliferation of electric vehicles

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

China's dominance of mineral mining and refining is thanks to years of investments and policy that has catapulted the country to become a world leader in less than 10 years. While the US has been slower to build out its EV supply chain, the Biden administration's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes $7.5 billion to develop domestic supplies of key minerals. On March 9, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm described the matter as a national security concern.

"We have, as a nation, stood by and watched this global free trade environment allow all of our manufacturing and key pieces of our supply chain go overseas," she said during the CERAWeek conference. "It has compromised our national security, our energy security, and certainly our economic security."

"We need to have the full supply chain here," she added.

Manchin also skewered his fellow Democrats' idea to spend billions to deploy EV charging stations across the country. Last year, while Congress was refining the infrastructure bill, nearly 30 House Democrats proposed increasing the bill's $7.5 billion expenditure for EV charging infrastructure to $85 billion. In addition to charging stations, the $85 billion would have been used to build more grid resilience in preparation for an electrified transportation sector.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Christ, he is a worthless ignorant POS.

[SCantiGOP]

14. I ever knew that our electricity

came here in big container ships from China.
(What a coal-fired dumb ass he is )

[uponit7771]

16. +1, He's got a point with supply chain but that's easily solvable with diversifying it. He's bought

... I despise the sell outs

[Firestorm49]

26. My thoughts exactly.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

32. Not quite prepared to go that far... but it's gettin to that point.

[JohnSJ]

2. The focus needs to be on the midterms, and winning a majority in the Senate by at least two seats,

and a majority in the House.

That should make Manchin irrelevant

[lagomorph777]

6. Yup. Make SineManchin irrelevant.

Putin may have helped us do that, by showing us what the Russiapublicans have actually been supporting.

[dchill]

3. And everyone should get a lump of coal.

[lagomorph777]

4. Fossil Fool

We can eliminate lithium, cobalt, and nickel from the batteries. CATL is already very far along on sodium batteries, which will be far cheaper, safer, and have longer lifespan.

[Celerity]

11. lol that name made me spit my 3PM Bellini

[doc03]

5. Waiting for a battery what does he think they run on "D" cells nt

[Freethinker65]

7. Tie it to temporarily reducing ethanol subsidies?

Manchin gets to see more US vehicles use more fossil fuel per fill up AND more corn production goes into the food supply chain instead of producing ethanol (which although cleaner burning, it's production is not so environmentally friendly). Manchin gets richer which is what this is about.
We need alternative energy investment and vehicles.

[brush]

8. He always moves the goal post at the last minute.

It should be obvious to everyone that we can't keep polluting the evirnoment forever by burning fossil fuels.

EVs are the future.

[Celerity]

9. Coalgaslighter who is doing massive heavy lifting in terms of fucking us for the midterms.

Manchin and Sinema have, as of now, blocked over 90% of Biden's new spend between the 2 infrastructure bills, PLUS they are blocking all voter protection/rights bills.

My two gens (I am right on the borderline of Millennials and Gen Z, born within 4 months of the cleavage date) hate him and other fossil fuel shills/profiteers who are helping kill off our future.

[spanone]

10. Is he pushing for coal vehicles?

he's on my last nerve.

[area51]

30. Maybe Manchinema would like

this coal-powered car.

[Boomerproud]

12. Cars have never run on coal you idiot!

:

[hamsterjill]

15. Okay, let me fix this once and for all.

Manchin isn’t going to support anything that the Democrats want because he gets attention by being a detractor, and that is exactly what his handlers want him to be.

We need to forget about him and move on because he will never cooperate.

[BlueIdaho]

17. x1000

[BGBD]

18. His point being

That we can't expect to rely on Chinese supply lines for critical components. It's echoing the message from the SOTU to build things in the US.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. The path to victory for a cleaner and greener america

Runs through
Tim Ryan in OH
*cross fingers* Val Demmings - If they count the votes and don't disenfranchise people in Florida
*cross fingers* Raphael Warnock wins again - if they don't disenfranchise folks in GA
Whoever is running against Ron Johnson
Mark Kelly - if Arizona legislature doesn't declare his opponent the winner
Connor Lamb in PA


At this point - we have to make the GOP completely irrelevant in the Senate.

I've given up all hope for the House just based on my state alone. By not lifting the SALT Cap - I believe my Congressman - Tom Malinowski has lost. Ditto Andy Kim, Mikie Sherrill, and Josh Gottheimer. They don't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning those seats again.

We have to prevent a GOP Senate.

[Fiendish Thingy]

29. As much as I'd like to see Gottheimer out of congress, replaced by someone more progressive

He won by 7-8 points in 2020, so his seat is probably safe.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. I'd love to see him stay

I've met Josh, and he's very sincere.


I do not believe - and I'm talking as a Democratic Committee Member in NJ -

That our delegation is going to look the same in January 2023.

The SALT Cap lift (Restoration to 1913 with implementation of modern day IRS) was critical in my door knocking and calls in 2020 in swing voters . . . And I did more than just the 7th.

[Fiendish Thingy]

34. Gottheimer was instrumental in killing BBB by demanding BIF be voted on separately

I find it hard to believe that a significant number of voters, let alone swing voters, even know what the SALT cap is.

[xmas74]

20. I'm taking what he's saying as a great reason why

We need to return well paying manufacturing jobs to the US.

Would he change his tune at all if a couple of battery plants wanted to build in WVa?

[Samrob]

21. Then help build our on supply chain from reliable sources. nt

[Mad_Machine76]

22. "Can't do this......can't do that"

Don't we pay these people to solve problems like this?!

[Samrob]

23. Manchin is full of coal tar! He will do anything to protect coal mine owners. nt

[BSdetect]

24. He's a total craphead. Must be removed.

[634-5789]

25. Pretty sure he does not understand what the future in automobiles is going to be. Ignorant? Selfish

[Midnight Writer]

27. Hey, Joe. The electricity needed to charge the vehicles will largely come from coal.

You know that, right?

[UTUSN]

28. "reluctance" is his version of COLLINS' "concern"?

[Baitball Blogger]

31. I think we can use this to elect more Democrats elsewhere.

Collect all the stupid reasoning from Manchin type Democrats and Republican Senators and turn it into a commercial to show what we can attain if we had more true Democrats in office.

[msongs]

35. so why not make batteries in WVA? doh! nt

[Liberal In Texas]

36. He really is stupid enough to be a repub.

And I guess he won't be buying the new electric Maserati when it comes out.


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[artemisia1]

38. In other words, Manchin announces for the fiftieth time what an attention seeking whore he is. nt