Another point: Joe also realizes that his state’s economic fortunes are tied to their natural resources, the biggest of which is coal. There are families in WV who have had miners in their ranks for generations. Then comes along the Left, with their empty promises of a green chicken in every pot; problem is, the pot ain’t big enough, nor are there enough chickens. Digging coal seams out of the rock is all they’ve ever known. Until there’s a plug-n-play solution (which is a long way off, IMO), West Virginians will have to be dragged away kicking aand screaming, clutching onto the furniture, before they give up the thing that’s put meat on the table and a roof over their heads.
I have no problem with alternate sources of energy.
What I have a problem with is mandating something like “green energy” which really isn’t so green after all when you look at what manufacture and disposal of the components is, before we have something in place to replace safe, reliable, abundant and what should be reasonably cheap fossil fuels.