VIEW FROM THE BACKSIDE by Barry Denton
Pass the Oil Please!
W
e just returned from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and the American Quarter Horse Association’ World Championship Horse Show. Luckily, we had a very successful show and a safe trip. Every ranch or farm that I know of has several vehicles on their place. Because we are so spread out here in the West, we naturally drive much further than Easterners. Besides we use lots of tractors, big equipment, and trucks just for our day-to-day operations. Since we have been home a few days, I have been doing some accounting and looking over the bills from the trip. Lo and behold, our fuel bill is exactly double of
what it was for last year’s trip. We used the same truck to haul with, the same horse trailer, the same number of horses, the same route, and the same amount of hauling time. The only difference in hauling there this year as opposed to last are the idiots holding political office. Let’s put it this way, Let’s Go Brandon is not a friend to the working person or family as he claimed during his presidential campaign that he did not legitimately win. Nonetheless, we are stuck with Let’s Go Brandon and his relentless pursuit to shut down oil pipelines in the United States and Canada. Last year we were the world’s top oil producer with oil being around $30 per barrel and now it is over $80 dollars a barrel, with Let’s Go Brandon begging OPEC to produce more oil. Really, Let’s Go Brandon and his cohorts seem to work overtime at destroying the United States as we know it. However, one unintended consequence of their alleged concern for the environment is that the rising costs of natural gas has reignited the coal industry which is up over 22 percent in production at the time of this writing. Even in the United Kingdom and Germany where this climate change hoax has really taken hold, they are opening
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new coal plants. This has got to be the funniest result yet of trying to shut down American oil production. The special climate change ambassador John Kerry from the Let’s Go Brandon administration announced at the recent UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow, Scotland that coal production in the US will be eliminated by 2030. Coal is going through the roof, Kerry is traveling everywhere he can in a private jet, which contradicts what he preaches each time he lands. Look at how many private jets were at the climate change conference. I would like to know the carbon footprint left by 1,000 jets in Scotland. Do not worry, they will not own up to it, they will continue to blame cattle. The saddest part of his entire mission is that this climate hoax is costing the American taxpayer a fortune. Family farms and ranches are taking a big hit because of the fools in office once again. This is not just another rant. Start taking action yourself. Get in touch with your elected representatives and tell them your side of the equation. It may fall on deaf ears but doing nothing will work even less. Lots of people calling and emailing makes an impression on those that are elected. You must get off your duff and make your voice heard. Start attending your local political party functions. You may not like to or have the time, but with this Let’s Go Brandon crew in charge for the time being, your freedom will suffer greatly, like never before. These people want you to fall into line and do what they tell you is good for you. Don’t do it farmers and ranchers. We are smarter than that.
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