Rev. Kevin Gillespie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
The Creston Neighborhood Watch had a litter pick up on Saturday and 8 bags of trash were collected along W. Va. 5.
The Creston area continues to have rain. It was reported that the Old Farmers’ Almanac is predicting a bad winter. For sure if precipitation this winter reflects the summer amounts there will be feet of snow. Now is the time to prepare. The local area had large numbers of naked ladies who flaunted everything that they had but most of them now have faded away. Both the West Fork and the main Little Kanawha are up & muddy.
A very sick turkey buzzard ended up near a house on the Richardsonville road. No one recalls ever seeing a sick buzzard before.
The “scheduled power outage” was to end at 4 P. M. but it was 9:30 P. M. before the electric came back on for Creston west of the Little Kanawha River bridge at the end of the dePue straight. Folks on the other side of the bridge had power but the internet went down at 8 A.M. [when the electric was shut off] and then the telephones died. All Elizabeth was out of power too except for those who had generators. Those who live in the area where the electric service was off note that every day there are short interruptions to the power. The PSC [Public Service Commission] is supposed to keep the utilities “honest” but, as it works out most of the time the PSC takes care of their “customers” and they “ain’t us”.
Jack dePue has a big shiny new blue garage that “is larger than his house”.
Ed Hardman was doing some work in the Creston area.
Broadway Joe sold out on the global warming/green new deal bill that sticks it to the coal, oil and gas businesses. Some of the big players said it was good because it would put their smaller competitors out of business. Joe, the yacht resident, even tried to circumvent the recent supreme court ruling that said EPA could not enact law but, apparently, Shelly Capito objected and the parliamentarian said that she was correct. 87,000 new IRS agents were approved and the requirements are that they will be armed and will have no qualms about shooting and killing American citizens. Most audits from the IRS are on folks who have modest incomes as the “fat cats” who they claim all this is about have lawyers & CPAs to deal with the revenooers. Previously cash transactions in the $10,000 range had to be reported to the IRS but now the reporting starts at $600. Obviously, such is not targeted against the few hundred billionaires but against ordinary people.
The garlic man who presently plays US AG made it clear that he will not tolerate anyone who questions his decisions or the actions of those who answer to him. As proof several “political prisoners’ who have not been charged have been laying in jail now for over a year and anyone can now be subject to a raid or have their cell phone confiscated while out in public with the family.
The IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change} has now decreed what can be said about the weather. Unknown to most, two IPCC rules require that the IPCC governments control reports as “scientific” findings on CO2, fossil fuels and manmade global warming, not scientists. IPCC governments meet behind closed doors & control what is published in its Summaries for Policymakers (SPMs) which controls what is published in full reports. Presently it is said the CO2 [carbon dioxide] level in the atmosphere is low at 415 ppm [parts per million]. 600 million years of climate data “contradict the theory that increased CO2 will cause catastrophic global warming”. Presently the increase has caused there to be much more vegetation in sub Sahara Africa which must be a good thing for the folks there as the sheep & goats have more to eat and the residents there then have more meat for their diet whether Bill Gates approves or not. Also, it is said that increased CO2 makes for wetter weather — not droughts such as were in the 1930s when records were set in the US for high temperatures.
Speaking of CO2 there presently is a nationwide shortage as a plant in Mississippi is said to be down “because of contamination”. Some small breweries are having problems and some have closed. Coke, now being “woke” likely will start promoting flat soft drinks “to save the planet”. Food grade CO2 was produced at a facility in Kanawha County that separated the carbon dioxide from the natural gas produced in wells there. Cabot drilled a well in Monroe County that was said to be pure CO2 some years back.
Apparently no one down at the Mouth of the Elk is working to get an ethane cracker or an ammonia fertilizer plant or a urea fertilizer plant in West Virginia. It would seem that the push is to get more pipelines to ship our gas elsewhere. Such is apparently what a good well behaved energy colony is to do. Not utilize the raw materials to make finished products [and generate wealth] in West Virginia. A recent trip through several W. Va. counties show the number of closed businesses, abandoned homes & ruined lives decades of such policies generate. Someone said, “Why Smiley Carmichaels is out looking for job opportunities for our state!” Smiley is working on getting an $80,000/year state retirement at taxpayer expense as, apparently, his former corporate clients didn’t care for him on the long haul. Gambling parlours and tatoo parlours are not really the way to make the state prosperous. Older folks remember when the “wise ones” said that if W. Va. had liquor by the drink, then prosperity would follow. Well . . . . . . . . .
It was learned that Aileen Getty, Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert & Peter Gill Case, all trust fund heirs of oil men, have been funding at $25,000/year “demonstrators” to fight fossil fuels, American exceptionalism and progress. It has been said that some have performed illegal acts to stop pipelines, new facilities & such and there has been no punishment. One might wonder if these folks use only products that have no plastic or synthetic rubber or if they use cosmetics or use items that were made only by machinery that is lubricated only by suet, tallow, lard or whale oil. Do you think that these fine folks live without air conditioning, refrigeration or motorized travel of any sort? It might be noted that Amish buggies and farm equipment require lubrication and W. Va. Pennsylvania grade crude makes the best lubricants. Some Wood county residents were amazed to learn that, at one time, Parkersburg had 12 (twelve) crude oil refineries.
Some more local residents have come down with Dr. Fauci’s gain of function virus and local medical men have obviously been told to not prescribe the cheap treatments ivermectin and hydroxy choloquin [modern day quinine]. There is an excellent article, readily available on the web, about how the government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh used ivermectin to control the disease in an area of 230 million citizens. It is worth reading and then see what Bill Gates did to try to stop the success & make sure that no one heard about what really worked.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil dropped to $91.09/bbl. with condensate fetching just $77.09/bbl. and Marcellus & Utica light bringing $82.09 & medium $91.09/bbl. Henry Hub [Louisiana] natural gas is at $8.77/mmbtu.
