Manchin PO'ed because Biden pledged to shut down coal plants

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

‘Offensive and disgusting’: Manchin unloads on Biden over coal comment

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Saturday slammed President Joe Biden for pledging to shut down America’s coal plants in a speech in California.

“President Biden’s comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs,” Manchin (D-W.Va.) said in a statement just days ahead of the midterm elections. “Comments like these are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden. … It seems his positions change daily depending on the audience and politics of the day.”

In a speech about the CHIPS Act in San Diego Friday, Biden said: “I was in Massachusetts about a month ago on the site of the largest old coal plant in America. Guess what? It cost them too much money.”

“No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it, even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of their existence of the plant. So it’s going to become a wind generation,” Biden added. “We’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/offensive-disgusting-manchin-unloads-biden-143216683.html

[David__77]

1. The companies are shutting them down.

Too risky and too expensive. Biden’s remark implies that the federal government is directly causing it which isn’t true.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

4. Exactly

And I’m not sure what the point of saying it this close to the election was.

[JI7]

6. Isn't that what Biden said ? That they are themselves shutting down

becsuse they aren't making money.

It's Manchin that is trying to imply that Biden is forcing them to shut down.

[David__77]

8. The use of the word "we" is the issue.

Had he said “they’re shutting them down,” it likely would land differently even if the intention is the same.

[Beachnutt]

2. If we can get a few more Dem senators

we will do just that and many more great things to help our planet Mr manchin.

[Polybius]

7. A few more?

I think the absolute best possible outcome now is like a pickup of one.

[Wounded Bear]

9. And Tim Ryan (assuming he wins) looks a bit like Manchin Redux...

We need the Dems in the Senate, even the DINO adjacent ones.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Any day with Manchin PO'd is almost always a good day.

[Celerity]

5. Manchin's energy policies are planet destroying AND self-dealing, enriching him millions of $. EOFS.