Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) argued on Wednesday’s episode of West Virginia MetroNews’ “Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval” that President Obama “knows” that we will need fossil fuels for “a lot” more than a decade, despite President Biden’s claim in the State of the Union address that we will need them for at least the next decade.
An apt Hoppy Kercheval quotation follows. [start listening at 18:50 for the crucial argument]. President Joe Biden has emphasized that the usage of fossil fuels would likely continue for the foreseeable future.
Manchin responded, “It’s going to take a lot longer than that.” He doesn’t see this as really groundbreaking knowledge. Throughout the past ten years, it has been encouraging to hear such remarks emanate from his mouth. For the sake of “coal towns,” “coal possibilities,” “coal industries,” and “the 13-15 million barrels of oil per day that we need to generate,” I must monitor the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act.