Almost 25% of America’s energy RIGHT NOW is from coal….
Down from 40% 12 years ago….
Some of that coal comes from Sen. Joe Manchin’s West Virginia…..
WTF would Democrat Biden say this out loud?
Climate Change IS something the planet needs…
But working on it is gonna take some time….
And cost jobs in some places….
Putting a Democratic Senator you KNOW YOU NEED in a bad place out loud is just bad politics….
Ughhhhh!
President Joe Biden on Saturday was criticized by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democratic antagonist and ally, for being “cavalier” and “divorced from reality” after vowing to shutter coal-fired power plants and rely more heavily on wind and solar energy in the future.
The powerful coal-state lawmaker said Biden’s words “ignore the severe economic pain” for people from higher energy prices and are why Americans “are losing trust” in Biden. Manchin’s stinging rebuke of his party’s leader comes at precarious time for Democrats on the final weekend of campaigning before Tuesday’s elections that could put Republicans back in power in Congress.
Manchin called for a public apology, and the White House later released a statement saying Biden’s words had been “twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended” and that the president “regrets it if anyone hearing these remarks took offense.”…
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The White House said Biden was “commenting on a fact of economics and technology” at a time when the country is undertaking an “energy transition” that he is working to ensure means “more jobs and better opportunities. … No one will be left behind.”
The EIA projects that coal generation is expected to decline from 22.5% of U.S. electricity in 2021 to 21.1% in 2022, before falling to 19.9% in 2023 -– the same coal generation share as 2020 when production hit its lowest level in decades, in part because of COVID-19. Natural gas is expected to make up for some of coal’s declining share in 2022 and beyond. Coal produced more than 40% of U.S. electricity though 2011 before a steep decline caused by the fracking boom….