states precipitously. u.s. car emissions have dropped 33% since 2005 according to carnegie melon. coal is one of the main reasons why, get a lot of the coal plants offline. and so let s talk politics. progressives across the country can try to move manchin on this as much as they want whether they like it or they hate it. i don t think they re going to push him any further on this coal issue and they re going to probably have to look to other issues environmentally to get him moving because obviously it s going to be hard for him to go back and say i know all the coal jobs are going away, we ll make them go away at a faster rate. in my discussion with some of the progressives that want to see something done and in my
because of the pandemic. at this critical moment in global climate change diplomacy. i would guess we don t really have a difference of opinion on that legislation. by comments had more to do with counting to 50 and being able to count to 218 in the house and figuring out what to do not to be left empty handed. you had a senator from a coal burning state who had seen a lot of jobs getting away and the u.s. cutting emissions by a third. i wonder what the art of possible is. tell me what do you think, what is the compromise and middle ground, a state that seen thousands and thousands of coal jobs go away over the past decade. how does a representative from
then and the congressional deadline to get the bipartisan bill signed. they want to show real progress on the reconciliation package. and also virginia s governor race and there is real concern right now where terry mcauliffe stands. yeah, you know, reverend al, let s talk pure politics here. you got joe manchin who represents west virginia, he was governor to west virginia a couple of terms. that s where he s grown up. that s where he lived his entire life. it s not brooklyn. it s not san francisco. coal has been king there the entire time. it has a drop precipitously, the coal jobs have been leaving
that state, republican or democrat, if democrats are still getting elected in west virginia, what do they say to constituents? yes, i know, you lost most of your jobs, we ll faze these jobs completely out by 2030. what puzzles me here is west virginia has enormous of a natural resources including when, creating a high paying jobs. these are good paying jobs that would replace the coal jobs that are vanishing, you can show how quickly the remaining 15,000 jobs also vanished, here is a whole new horizon of direct investment in energy that americans need and west virginia could supply and many could look at old provisions at the reconciliation bill which would be beneficial to west
manchin rejected that idea, considers it a handout. heard from people in west virginia who consider it welfare and not interested going that route, even though in the context of a multitrill dollar bill an easy solution to make them hole. the work-around he s more interested in, finding them new jobs in the area of carbon capture or in what experts call firm energy, new jobs in nuclear and advanced geothermal and hydro. so basically these two things are linked together, because the more aggressively you move on to clean energy the more coal jobs at risk and you create a need to act on those and make the workers whole again. one source, a democrat working on this calling it a complicated puzzle. it s keeping people up at night. hallie? sounds like it. thank you so much for that breakdown. appreciate it, my friend. next up, is q running for congress next year? yeah. we re talking about it, after the break. w, w