Rev. Kevin Gillespie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. bu. Church.
Tom Mowrey is still a patient at the University’s Camden Clark hospital in Parkersburg. Back before Christmas he acquired Dr. Fauci’ s Wuhan Kung Flu virus. Charles Russell who resides at the extended care unit of Minnie Hamilton likewise acquired the germ warfare lab generated pathogen. Several area residents spent the Holiday season dealing with various respiratory infections, coughing, having sore throats, running fevers, not exactly what folks had in mind for Holiday cheer.
Linda Sands, age 80, of Washington, W. Va. passed away. She had some health problems & she was a daughter of Roscoe & India Marie Young Hopkins. Roscoe was a son of the famous Tom Alec Hopkins whose job, back in the day when the log boom operated in Creston, was to round up the logs that “got away” or lodged on their way down the West Fork to the boom. His crew was said to be fearless in gathering logs in the river, especially during high water.
Linda Wright Srkulla of Columbus who had been battling cancer passed away and two hours later, before he could be notified of his wife’s death, husband Buddy died as well. Linda was the daughter of Hershel and Nancy Belle Woodring Wright.
The W. Va. State Republican chairwoman is resigning from the position to run for a judge position. A fellow from Wood County said he would take over & he came highly recommended until Sen. Eric Tarr came out for him. Tarr is the critter who, along with Baldy Blair, pushed the forced pooling law that takes property from folks, even when they are negotiating leases, and gives it to the big companies. Of course this is not free enterprise but crony capitalism as practiced in socialist nations. This action made sure that W. Va. will never be able to realize the actual value of the world class oil & gas resources that underly almost all of the state. Well, they said, “Every body, all the stake holders said it was OK!” The W. Va. Farm Bureau was told to support the bill or “else”. 15% net leases don’t really match up well with 25% gross leases with the right to ascertain true production figures.
Creston continues to have a rather open winter although some days ice had to be broken for animal water in both December and January. It got so cold in Sweden that the electric busses that were purchased to fight global warming wouldn’t work. A nearby W. Va. town recently lost their Ford dealership after the WOKE management of the Ford company advised the dealer that he would have to try to sell EVs. He would have to spend $600,000 and he knew that no one would buy them, a fact that is happening nation wide as there is no market for the used EV chariots, it seems.
A local resident got one of those calls from one of those polling outfits. It seemed that the pollster was backing Jim Justice for senate and didn’t want to hear about past actions of the man that should have sent him away for a vacation. Apparently Patrick Morrisy was not the “right one” for governor although there was a lot of “trash talk” about the car salesman from Huntington. She spoke of Mr. kaPeetoe but then corrected the name to Capito. She asked about Fox News & talk radio and the response that the local resident no longer watched Fox News after Tucker Carlson was fired was “not the right answer”. The pollster wanted to know “What king of Republican the local resident might be? An explanation of RINOS left her flummoxed The local fellow isn’t quite sure what the lady meant when she said “regular republicans” as opposed to Trump Republicans. Little “Mittens” Romney, a/k/a Pierre Delecto ,is obviously different from Donald J. Trump.
Now is the time to file for office in W. Va. Do you think that the county needs new office holders? Do you believe that the Legislature needs new blood after selling West Virginia out to the highest bidder? Now is the time. Also the legislators have gone down to the Mouth of the Elk to meet under the golden dome. What will they do this time?
More & more medical folks have come out against the m-rna vaccines as more results of death, heart damage & the DNA changes that we were told couldn’t happen did. One of the biggest vaccine promoters is Bill Gates whose father had Planned Parenthood, the abortion firm that once openly talked about eliminating the undesirables. There is, once again, talk of mandated lockdowns and some devout followers are dutifully wearing the masks that even Dr. Fauci said [once] don’t work.
The State Road is continuing the slicing of tree limbs so there are no leaves above the road. Over in Jackson County Integrity Tree Service was cutting vegetation behind the power lines. The zeal with which the project is pushed raises lots of questions and after noting what has been done along select South Carolina roads, where saw logs, pulpwood, chip wood an d firewood was all chipped up and left on the ground might indicate that this is how the “Infrastructure $$” is being spent – shovel ready and the contractors and equipment rental folks might just remember who made them rich and “you know the thing”. Perhaps a legislator with spine will ask the correct questions with follow-ups to the state road biggies. One might argue that problems on back roads in Wirt, Roane & Calhoun counties are no big whoop but not fixing I-77 between Ripley & the Kentuck/Kenna exit is something else, it would seem.
The much hyped Hydrogen hub with the $billion in taxpayer funds that Broadway Joe ‘did for us’ may now be dead as the new IRS rules specify that hydrogen produced from natural gas will not qualify for the tax loophole that would allow for any private funding. Also CNX, one of the Rockefeller gas companies, pulled out of the proposed ammonia plant in Mingo County. CNX was to supply the natural gas. Also the proposed ethane cracker that was to go in across the river from Moundsville as the Siamese company said they were going to invest there, not in Ohio. If W. Va. had leadership there would be ammonia and urea plants being constructed to utilize the bountiful natural gas with which the state has been blessed. John Heintz Kerry and Al Gore Jr. can scream and cry but they are filthy rich and say that the rules do not apply to them. In W. Va. we see the need for fertilizers to grow crops so folks do not starve.
Last year saw the most oil & gas produced ever and the USA became #1 in LNG exports beating out Qatar & Australia.
Williams Company [they have stuff in northern W. Va.] recently purchased115 billion cubic feet of gas storage in Mississippi &Louisiana and the pipelines for $1.95 billion. Folks knew that gas storage is a very lucrative business but numbers have been hard to come by. W. Va. citizens get $1/acre/year for storage rights that might generate $10,000/acre/year for the company.
It was recently reported [again] that the communist Chinese are supporting “big green” outfits an d that Russia, a major natural gas producer, has been funding anti frac organizations. Such a deal.
October gas from Owl Hill which was paid in late December brought just 16 cents/mcf or 13.6 cents/dekatherm while the Henry Hub price was said to be $2.88 and the wise ones believe the price will stay low through 2024. Of course, the gas utilities, citing higher gas costs, have increased the price for local residents. The ruling junta has come out with more rules to try to ban gas cook stoves, gas heating stoves & furnaces.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude is $72.81/bbl. with condensate fetching just $54.81/bbl. with Marcellus & Utica light bringing $63.81 & $72.81/bbl.
