On West Virginia MetroNews' "Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval" on Monday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that you can't just cut off fossil fuels and doing so would put the U.S. in the same position as Germany. Manchin also argued that the war in Ukraine wouldn't have happened if Putin "didn't have this type of advantage in what he's holding over everyone's head" on energy.