In addition to the crocuses & daffodils, chickweed and henbit were blooming as robins scurried around looking for worms & other tasty morsels. Then, Friday night (during the night) it snowed and there was more than six inches. Folks with side by sides & tractors plowed off Creston area roads & driveways but traffic was minimal, to say the least, and the mail did not run. Then it turned cold [John Kerry & Al Gore, Jr. & their “global warming”] with the mercury dropping into the single digits. Church services were cancelled and there was the smell of wood smoke.
Some local folks took a trip up into Ohio Amish country. Several residents there, especially those have equine transportation or who ride bicycles will not, at once, suffer from the high fuel prices. Of course all will be impacted far too soon. The wheat crop there looks good.
It was reported that our “clever” legislators passed the oil & gas forced pooling bill so more money can go to other states & nations while W. Va. remains impoverished. As they say, “Money talks”. Also, it was understood that a bill that would be another death knell to county government was pushed through by “Baldy” Blair who hopes EQT will finance his run for governor. If they had the best interests of the state & its citizens at heart they would be working to utilize the natural gas that is being produced in the state, one easy example is making fertilizer as even the green weenies need and like to eat. Such would be work and there would be no “quick bucks” to pocket.
The Word Economic Forum, run by Klaus Schwab, has been pushing the Great Reset. It was noted that there should be “re-education camps” perhaps like China has for the genocide of the Uyghurs that formerly did live in Sinkiang province next to Mongolia. Those who question the “ruling junta” are now banned by the big tech guys and then investigated as “domestic terrorists” like parents that ask hard or embarrassing questions at school board meetings.
The ruling junta [Biden administration string pullers] have been adamant to destroy the U. S. Energy industry. Hillary said she was going to put a lot of coal miners out of work. She & the Big Eared One did that, southern W. Va. is suffering and steam coal, if you can find any, now brings $435/ton. There are over 1700 tons/acre foot in a coal vein so the math is easy. Then multiply by the thickness of the vein in feet. Last October the administration called in the biggies, Exxon, Shell, BP, etc. and told them to reduce domestic oil production. Being good little boys & girls, they minded. Of course the intent was to raise the price of gasolene and such has now happened. Within one week the price in Parkersburg rose $1/gallon or $42/bbl. The ruling elites have made it clear that they do not like the peasants being able to come & go as they please. They should walk like they do in 3rd world countries. Of course, now the party line is a completely different tale. A local fellow has some ocean front lots for sale too — and a special price, just for you.
For some years now “environmental groups” like Natural Resources Defense Council & the Sierra Club have fought drilling, hydraulic fracturing and pipelines. The purer than the driven snow groups received over $10 million from the Sea Change Fund which got the money from Russia. Now, we face the consequences, a weak America that is begging Iran (“Death to America”) & the dictator in Venezuela for oil to keep prices low until after the November election. In addition there is the war in Ukraine which the US has been funding by buying lots of oil & natural gas from Vladimir. It also turns out that Russia supplies us with fertilizer and the price of urea went from $230/ton to $800. That means that the price of food is going UP and the price of wheat, for those who like bread, is the highest now in history. Older folks remember when many local farmers raised their own wheat and even older people recall when Spencer had the largest flour mill east of the Mississippi River.
The local state road crews obviously have been ordered not to deal with real road work, like removing boulders that have fallen in the “clear zone” to keep using the high dollar rented machinery to cut tree tops. Talk about marauding morons running the show.
More reports continue to come out about the health problems & deaths caused by the vaccines. Dr. Malone, who developed RNA [ribose nucleic acid] vaccines noted that the treatments resemble “gene therapy”. One can read the statistics from the US military although now a spokesperson said the numbers for the 5 years before 2021 now were wrong. Dr. Fauci is now obviously being kept out of sight — no problems now, just take your shots. Pfizer is scheduled to make $94 million/day this year thanks to the deep state.
W. Va. 5 has been busy with oil trucks hauling oil that producers had been holding waiting for the price to go up. The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude is $108.33/bbl. with condensate fetching $94.33/bbl. with Marcellus & Utica light bringing $99.33 & medium $108.33/bbl. Henry Hub natural gas was $4.84/mmbtu.
Bloomberg News announced that HG Energy, based in Parkersburg is on the market for $3 billion. According to press reports Texas based Quatum Resources is the financial backer. Recently HG sold their shallow wells in the Hartley/Brohard field to Warren Haught. It was also reported that Exxon, the Rockefeller flagship company is contemplating selling their wells in the Bakken shale out in North Dakota. Recently the governor of Alaska noted that in his state no natural gas [methane] is flared, polluting the atmosphere and wasting resources but not so far away in Siberia vast amounts of gas is flared so Putin can get the oil to finance his war machine. Where is the Squad when one needs them?
