The White House walked back remarks from President Joe Biden (D) on Friday after the president said he was going to be shutting down coal plants across the country amid an energy crisis.

“I was in Massachusetts about a month ago on the site of the largest old coal plant in America. Guess what? It cost them too much money,” Biden said at an event in Carlsbad, California. “No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it, even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of the existence of the plant. So it’s going to become a wind generation.”

“And all they’re doing is, it’s going to save them a hell of a lot of money and using the same transmission line that they transmitted the coal-fired electric on, we’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar power.”

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, responded to Biden’s remarks by calling them “outrageous and divorced from reality.”