Joe Manchin actually said...

"We are trying to get what we call a mid-Atlantic energy hub, storage hub, strategically."

"we want to keep some of that product in our central states, in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania because we become the back-up, strategically, for our national interest and concerns"

"I just want to make it as simple as I can. We are producing more oil than we have ever produced in the United States on a daily basis and that is an accurate statement, correct?"

"The people back home in West Virginia are asking, how come our prices are going up if we are so enriched with all this new technology and all this oil and surplus?"