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Manchin can go hell and take his oil rigs with him.
Manchin just can't stop shitting on the American people. >

Someone needs to explain to him that electric cars use electricity generated by coal power plants. >

That's not the issue for him. The issue is that a mostly electric vehicle fleet will, in the long run, fuck his state since its a step in the direction of total clean energy.  
West Virginia has, literally, nothing significant going for it except for fossil fuels. >

They are the largest purchasers of butt plugs per capita in the US. So they got that. >

He’s so stupid. Combustion cars don’t run on coal, but electric cars can. Mr coal country needs some educatin’. >

Maybe he wants us to switch to coal-fired steam jalopies. >

We thought he was a coal Barron, turns out he’s just a steampunk. >

This headline seems misleading to me after reading the article. Manchin is objecting to exemptions that can undermine some of the intent of the law, which was not only to promote EVs, but also to grow the American manufacturing base by giving tax credits for domestically manufactured products.
So, it's a worthwhile debate to have, deciding whether or not the US should be bolstering its manufacturing with these tax credits or using them for foreign products, but what mansion is talking about is not as simple as this headline is suggesting, in classic straw-man fashion.
TLDR;

"the EV tax credits were designed to grow domestic manufacturing and reduce our reliance on foreign supply chains for the critical minerals needed to produce EV batteries.″ -Manchin
The Manchin bill directs the Treasury to stop issuing tax credits for vehicles that don’t comply with battery requirements.

And the battery requirement Manchin is talking about is that they be produced domestically. 
As a Midwesterner in a town that was gutted by auto manufacturing moving to other countries due to unfair free trade agreements, I'm not going to dismiss Manchin on this topic just because I disagree with him on most other topics. I'd like to see these American tax credits bringing back jobs to Americans. >


Sadly EV tax credits are used by manufacturers to increase the prices of the vehicles, and not to make them more affordable or to move manufacturing back to US. 

That's an awful simplistic broad brush you've got there.

Also, most of your jobs from Midwest moved South and not abroad.

Yes, the Midwest lost many jobs to Southern & lower Midwest States, but that has absolutely zero to do with what I'm talking about. 
We have lost jobs abroad also, and you need to travel back before 2011 to get meaningful data. The United States has gone from about 28% of the world's manufacturing output to 18%, there are about 50% fewer manufacturing jobs in the US than the were 45 years ago, the auto manufacturing sector used to be over a million of those jobs, and all of that despite the fact that the US population has grown almost 50% since we were at the height of our manufacturing, so US manufacturing has been decimated on a per capita job level. 
In fairness, many of those jobs have also been lost to automation, and those jobs are never coming back anywhere, but there US has also been losing jobs abroad, because it's been more important to politicians that we have cheap goods and it has been to make sure we have good paying jobs with benefits and the ability to retire at a reasonable age.
I have seen the results of American government dismissing the needs of manufacturing workers for decades and making US policy choices that have made China the world's manufacturing superpower instead of the US while trashing the environment at the same time. Manchin seems to understand that it's a slap in the face for many US workers to help subsidize imported goods when the US has done such a poor job "transitioning workers to the 21st century" as they keep promising while they push for more "free" trade. I think he also understands that we are never going to get to carbon neutrality if the needs of people like manufacturing workers keep getting ignored, because people struggling to pay their bills aren't as likely to care much about carbon emissions and they're more likely to believe demagogues like those we've been seeing on the far right.

...mostly rich car buyers who buy expensive new cars will qualify.

That's not what this issue is about. Manchin was talking about whether or not commercial entities should be exempt from rules about how the newest subsidies can be used and he's objecting to the Treasury department applying subsidies to purchases of imported goods instead of goods made in the US. This has little to do with individual car buyers.

They should only subsidize affordable mass produced cars and not $150000 Teslas, Rivians, Ford Pickups, and Hummers.

Okay. I'd happily support a cap on the type of car subsidies are used for, or better yet, estimate the likely lifetime carbon footprint of manufacturing and using each model of vehicle, create subsidies that have a carbon footprint cap, and make the subsidy amount for any given model inversely related to carbon footprint benchmarks for the vehicle class. Still, if the US government is going to spend billions of dollars on EV subsidies, I'd rather they be spent on US built products, because it seems unrealistic to suggest that doing so would not have any impact on job creation. >

Fuck Joe Manchin. Just in general, this may or may not apply to the article. >

I unrelated news he has pushing a bill for a new coal powered car. >

Funny you should say that, because 20% of electricity produced in US still comes from coal.