Creston Holds Poker Run, But Nobody is Betting on Energy’s Future



Rev. Kevin Gillispie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church & served Holy Communion.

There were 367 riders at the Creston ATV poker run.  The community would like to thank all those who donated items for the door prizes, sent out the mailers [and e-mails], laid out, set up & to\ok down the route, worked the stations, fixed & served the food, filled out all the paperwork, dot-shirts, chances on the quilt, cleaned the building, parked all the trucks & trailers and all those who came and made the ride the event that it was.  Judy Proctor came in first followed by Brent Mueller & David Fixes.  Tina Forshey won the 50/50.  The kitchen ran out of food.  Several riders suffered break downs and one fellow [at least] rolled his machine but continued on the trail.  A jeep got sideways going up the hill out of Rock Camp and had to be winched to the top holding up many for an extended time.  One young lady rider from the Old Dominion who had never ridden before got too deep in Spring Creek at the Beaver Dam ford and had to be rescued.  Also her chariot which had only handlebars showing had to be pulled out of the stream.  The folks at station #3 had a pleasant visitor in a pet button buck with two ribbons around his neck.  Someone used a drone to, it was understood, film much of the activity both at Creston and on the route.  Bubba and his woman, Bertha, decided to try the “He Man Hole” beside the trail down in Rock Camp. The event was recorded for posterity as water & mud flew through the air from his spinning tires.  They were extricated and then went on along the route, no worse for ware.  Most of the chariots and riders were totally covered in mud.

Ted Grim was calling on Charles Russell & friends at the Minnie Hamilton Extended Care facility.  Charlie was happy to have the company.

The Creston area had some much needed rain which did not raise stream levels.  Such was not the case elsewhere. Wild iris [flag] is now b looming as well as the government’s autumn olive which is an invasive pest.

Someone down on W. Va. 5 [the Creston western suburbs] didn’t call 811 [Miss Utility] and residents there discovered that they could not cook supper and had to eat bologna sandwiches instead.  Mountaineer Gas was seen out fixing the punctured gas line.

Gov. Justice and his little dog announced that they are going to try to stop Congressman Alex Mooney from retiring Jim’s old buddy Broadway Joe who, not so long ago, sold out West Virginia to the “green new deal”.  It seems that the powers that be want Jim & Joe to face off against one another so that either way they win.  “Heads I win and tails you lose!”  Pierre Delecto, a/k/a Mittens Romney, indicated that he would back the Maserati driving “champion of working and coal mining men” .  The Uniparty wants complete control and the peasants, especially in West Virginia, are to have no say whatsoever.

Toby Rice, the head honcho at EQT the biggest natural gas producer announced that their first quarter was great with a profit of $1.663 billion.  He noted that hedging of gas was a great help and that they had “value creation” throughout all parts of the commodity cycle.  Many is W. Va. state government look to Toby Rice for “advice & direction”.  He opposes using resources in W. Va. to make finished products.

Paul Rady, the head honcho of Antero announced that they had a banner first quarter too with a price of $4.11/mcfe [thousand cubic feet equivalent] for their natural gas and that the firm had a 17% increase in NGLs [natural gas liquids] from last year.  He noted that the price of NGLs was $42.95/bbl. and that the liquids were 45% of the company profit and that the company was situate in an ideal location (stregth of our asset base) for profit.  That is to say they control a large portion of West Virginia’s world class oil & natural gas acreage.  It has been noted that some leases do not provide for royalties to be paid on natural gas liquids allowing for theft on a huge scale. [One company used to brag.]+ The firm noted that they were doing “organic leasing” whatever that might mean.  Also that in 24 hours the firm was able to drill 12,340 feet of lateral on a horizontal well.

The federal EIA ( Energy Information Agency) reported that drilling for oil & gas will continue [and increase] until at least 2050.  Some local folks noted that likely they would not be around then to worry about future trends.  Also, some of the green weenies are trying to get the federal government to change the name of natural gas.  Perhaps they ate too much cooked cabbage, lima beans & butter milk and they generate far too much unnatural gas that escapes into crowed rooms and eventually the atmosphere.  That is pollution that folks can relate to.

The IPA, at the insistence of  “Big Green’, is working to shut down gas fired electric plants like the new one up in Ohio along I-77.  Also talk is now more serious about closing coal fired plants like the one in Pleasants County.  If one thinks that we have electric problems around Creston now, just wait and we can be like California & Texas [during big cold snap].

Our exquisite leaders said that soon we should have an all-electric military.  Wonder how they propose to run power out to the front lines to charge up the tanks that need a charge?

Jimmy Wriston, the State Road {DOH} boss, likes to talk about doing core maintenance work, especially when it involves high dollar contracts to his out of state contractor buddies for tree cutting.  Roane County CR 9/3 has ruts that are at least 6 feet deep and water runs from the top of the hill down to the bottom.  This is where the jeep got stuck and held up riders on the Creston ATV poker run for hours.  It would seem that “core maintenance” would include filling in the very deep ruts and at least installing some water bars [cut outs] so that the road is passable.  No one locally drives Maserati [like our rulers] so the road need not be fancy.  On Calhoun CR 12/3 there are culverts that now have been plugged for years & the one that fell over the hill hasn’t been reinstalled.  Seems that such would be core maintenance  too but what would Creston area folks know about such?

The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude dripped to $76.78/bbl. with condensate, formerly called Appalachian light sweet fetching just $59.78/bbl. with Marcellus & Utica light bringing $66.78. & medium $75.78/bbl.