Joe Manchin Sinks Biden’s Battleship – After The President Blames Oil Prices On OPEC, The Senator Sets The Record Straight
Gas prices continue to rise across the country, and concerned consumers are wondering just how high the prices could go. Combined with the supply chain crisis, America faces a difficult holiday season.
The Biden administration is also under fire — the President has provided a reason for the skyrocketing gas prices, but says there isn’t much we can do about it right now.
But one Democrat doesn’t agree with the President’s reasoning.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) has stood against Biden and his staff for much of 2021. He frequently voiced his opposition to controversial policies, and he’s even considered leaving the Democrat party.
Manchin is one of the few leftist politicians to reject the Biden administration’s spending bill, for example. He hasn’t supported much of the “pork” his fellow Democrats have tried to put in.
And in the case of the gas price fiasco, Manchin doesn’t believe the President’s excuse.
Recently, President Biden blamed the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for the high gas prices. This likely sounded reasonable to most of his supporters.
But it’s not reasonable at all, according to Manchin.
During an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier, Sen. Manchin responded to Biden’s assertion, and said that in fact, America can fix this problem itself (via The Daily Wire):
Via The Daily Wire:
We have been energy independent for the first time in 67 years.
…why don’t we do more drilling, and why don’t we do more basically production in the United States?
I’m not depending on OPEC. I’m not depending on other countries for my energy anymore.
We know how to do it. We have the technology. We should be resilient, relying on ourselves.