Joe Manchin isn’t so sure about this whole electric vehicle thing. You see, the senator from West Virginia, who has received more than $1 million in campaign donations from the gas and oil lobby since getting elected in 2010, is worried about battery lines — a thing that doesn’t exist and isn’t relevant to how electric vehicles work.
At an energy conference hosted in Houston over the weekend, Manchin said that he’s “very reluctant” to push for electric vehicles because what will happen when the batteries run out? “I’m old enough to remember standing in line in 1974 trying to buy gas. I remember those days,” Manchin said, according to S&P Global. “I don’t want to have to be standing in line waiting for a battery for my vehicle, because we’re now dependent on a foreign supply chain — mostly China."
