{"id":1726874,"date":"2022-11-06T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726874"},"modified":"2022-11-07T00:08:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T05:08:02","slug":"manchin-demands-public-apology-from-biden-over-outrageous-coal-comments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-demands-public-apology-from-biden-over-outrageous-coal-comments-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin Demands Public Apology From Biden Over &#8220;Outrageous&#8221; Coal Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmanchin-demands-public-apology-from-biden-over-outrageous-coal-comments-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726874&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-manchin\">Joe Manchin<\/a> (D-W.Va.) is demanding a public apology from President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> over what Manchin describes as Biden\u2019s \u201coutrageous\u201d remarks regarding coal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden\u2019s 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,\u201d Manchin said in a statement on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComments like these are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden and instead believes he does not understand the need to have an all in energy policy that would keep our nation totally energy independent and secure. It seems his positions change depending on the audience and the politics of the day. Politicizing our nation\u2019s energy policies would only bring higher prices and more pain for the American people,\u201d Manchin added.<\/p>\n<p>During a speech Friday, Biden said that coal plants are being shut down and no new ones are being constructed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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. They can\u2019t count. No one is building new coal plants because they can\u2019t rely on it, even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of their existence of the plant. So it\u2019s going to become a wind generation,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to save them a hell of a lot of money, and they\u2019re using the same transmission line that transmitted the coal-fired electric on. We\u2019re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was speaking\u00a0in California at the headquarters of Viasat, a communications company.<\/p>\n<p>About 12,000 people were employed in the coal industry in West Virginia in 2021, according to the\u00a0Office of Miners Safety Health &#038; Training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear, this is something the President has never said to me,\u201d Manchin said. \u201cBeing cavalier about the loss of coal jobs for men and women in West Virginia and across the country who literally put their lives on the line to help build and power this country is offensive and disgusting. The President owes these incredible workers an immediate and public apology and it is time he learn a lesson that his words matter and have consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement later Saturday that Biden \u201cknows that the men and women of coal country built this nation\u201d and that Biden has worked with Manchin to get former coal workers new jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s remarks yesterday have been twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended; he regrets it if anyone hearing these remarks took offense,\u201d Jean-Pierre said. \u201cThe President was commenting on a fact of economics and technology: as it has been from its earliest days as an energy superpower, America is once again in the midst of an energy transition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre said the Biden administration\u2019s goal \u201cis to combat climate change and increase our energy security by producing clean and efficient American energy\u201d and during the transition from coal, \u201cno one will be left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-zachary-stieber\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WEB_ZacharyStieber-1.jpg\" alt=\"Zachary Stieber\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zachary Stieber covers U.S. and world news for The Epoch Times. He is based in Maryland.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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