h / t Breitbart – President Biden’s insensitive comments about coal’s impending shutdown sparked a backlash from the coal state Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV).
President Biden’s comments are not only one-sided and far from reality, but also ignore the severe economic pain the American people are experiencing because of rising energy costs. Comments like these are the reason the American people lose faith in President Biden and instead believe that he doesn’t understand the need for a comprehensive energy policy to keep our nation complete. completely independent and safe in terms of energy. It seems his position changes depending on the audience and the political situation of the day. Politicizing our nation’s energy policies will only bring higher prices and more pain to the American People.
Let me be clear, this is something the President never told me. Cavalier about the loss of coal jobs for men and women in West Virginia and across the country people who really put their lives first to help build and power this country is offensive and disgusting. The President owes these incredible workers an immediate and public apology and it’s time for him to learn a lesson that his words matter and have consequences.
President Biden seems to have no doubt about his feelings for coal, in his remarks which triggered a response from Joe Manchin;
… “I was in Massachusetts about a month ago on the site of the largest ancient coal plant in America,” Biden said at an event in Carlsbad, California, on Friday. “Guess what? It costs them too much money. They cannot count. Nobody builds new coal plants because they can’t rely on it. Even if they had all the coal guaranteed for the rest of the plant’s existence.
“So it will become a wind generation. And all they’re doing is going to save them a lot of money, and using the same transmission lines that they run for coal-fired electricity, we’re shutting these plants down across the United States and has wind and solar power, also offers tax credits to help families buy energy-efficient appliances, whether it’s your fridge or coffee maker, for panels the sun in your home, the weathering of your home, the things that save the average, according to experts, $500 minimum. a year for the average family. “…
President Biden’s press secretary responded to Manchin’s request for an apology, arguing that Biden’s words were distorted.
Statement by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
President Biden knows that the men and women of coal country built this country: they power its steel mills and mills, keep homes, schools, and offices warm. . They have made this nation the most productive and powerful nation on Earth. He came to the White House to end years of big profits with little action to help our nation’s coal-producing regions. Working closely with Senator Manchin, a tireless supporter of his state and the hardworking men and women who live there, President Biden has helped get this part of the country back up and running. : the unemployment rate in West Virginia was 6.2% last month before Joe Biden took office; now it’s down to 4%. The President’s plans have brought new energy and manufacturing jobs to the region, and in the years to come, will continue to create new jobs with projects such as hydrogen power generation. In fact, through the Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities, President Biden has transferred more than $23 billion to energy communities across the country.
Yesterday’s President’s speech was distorted to suggest an unintended meaning; he will regret it if anyone hears these remarks offended. The president commented on a fact of economics and technology: as it has been an energy superpower since its earliest days, America is once again in the midst of an energy transition. Our goal as a nation is to fight climate change and increase our energy security by producing clean and efficient American energy. Under President Biden, oil and natural gas production has increasedand we are on track to achieve the highest production in the history of our country next year. He is determined to ensure that this transition helps all Americans across the country, with more jobs and better opportunities; it’s a commitment he’s upheld since Day One. No one is left behind.
As far as I know, Manchin did not receive his apology. And I don’t accept the assertion that Biden’s words have been distorted.
In my opinion, coal workers can reasonably interpret President Biden’s words as negligent, if not outright hostile to coal – a position Manchin seems to support. Biden’s claims about coal’s unreliability seem clear enough, even if Biden’s claims are utter nonsense.
The fact is that there is nothing unreliable about coal. Coal created the modern world. Coal powered the heyday of American manufacturing and may do so again. Coal catapulted Asian nations from starving peasant economies to industrial and manufacturing superpowers, in less than a lifetime.
In terms of the correlation between coal use and prosperity, it seems no coincidence that Biden’s attacks on coal are pushing the U.S. economy back, with rampant inflation, chemical Food and energy bills suck up the wealth of ordinary Americans. Just as coal has lifted us all to modernity and prosperity, abandoning coal can accomplish the opposite.
There are many hungry people out there, billions of people making a few dollars a day or less, who go to bed hungry and malnourished. Some of them live in countries that were once rich. Places like Venezuela, once one of the wealthiest countries in South America, have lost it all in just a few decades, thanks to political impotence and corruption.
History teaches us prosperity is fragile. All it takes is a bunch of bad rulers, sometimes just one bad ruler, to erase the progress of generations. At any moment, a vital economic support could collapse under the weight of Biden’s political animosity, possibly without us even being aware of it, and knocking everything down depends. it. The entire economy could collapse in a heap. This can happen with very little warning – the rotting tree looks sturdy until it topples before the storm.
The US is likely to go the same way with Venezuela, unless something is done to mitigate and repair the economic damage caused by Biden’s war for prosperity and affordable energy. out.
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