
Fogleman: Policy blunders helping along higher energy costs
In many ways, Colorado’s natural gas reserves have been the goose that laid the golden egg.
In many ways, Colorado’s natural gas reserves have been the goose that laid the golden egg.
Jared Polis has now shown he has the ability to stand up to the communists in his tribe. Soon we’ll find out if he has the guts.
So why again does our state government want to ignore the voice of the people and levy sweeping new regulations on our increasingly safe oil and gas industry?
The commission’s suppressive tactics played into the hands of anti-oil and gas groups, who had nowhere else to be and happily filled the speaking slots of energy workers, industry experts and community leaders who couldn’t stay indefinitely.
While the state is trying to force us into Boulder control, our county officials, with community support, are pushing forward with our own Weld County control, which hasn’t gone unnoticed.
“He looked us in the eye and he said, ‘How you do business in Weld County will not change. You’re right Gov. Polis, because the actions we (took) today will ensure that it does not change. … We’re here to make sure Gov. Polis and his political operatives keep their promises.” Weld Commissioners Scott James and Barbara Kirkmeyer.
What major legislation has Polis signed that reduces government’s economic footprint?
They’re just lawmakers whose intentions are good; oh, please don’t let them be misunderstood.
“If we don’t harness this enthusiasm to unify and advance the industry in Colorado, then shame on us.” Dustin Case.
“I’m sure the commissioners have had that vetted, and we’re having it vetted. I don’t know how we’ll see it, but I appreciate that the county is looking out for the interest because its going to affect us all.” — Greeley Mayor John Gates
Greeley and Evans’ own state representative supports destroying our region’s chief economic driver and the thousands of jobs it provides, and yet somehow thinks that it can be remedied by forcing those soon-to-be-unemployed workers into government-run retraining programs.
“Men and women who truly care about our state, rejected oil and gas extremism in 2018. If it comes to it, we know they’ll do it again in 2020.” Barbara Kirkmeyer and John Brackney on 181 Repeal
By Jon Caldara
Racial discrimination is repugnant. Period.
Our nation has made great strides during our nearly 250 years. And for that we should be proud, not ashamed. Too bad we’ve gone backward with government-sanctioned racial discrimination.
I was born the same year of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, raised with our shared goal of a colorblind society. Martin Luther King Jr. laid out that vision as clearly as John Kennedy set a goal of a man on the moon: to be judged on the content of our character, not the color of our skin.
Today’s identity politics is the most dangerous, hateful and ugly movement since slavery itself. To teach a child she is what the color of her skin is, not who she works to be, pollutes her and condemns her.
The Wall Street Journal recently shed light on this systematic racism at my alma mater, the University of Colorado, Boulder. With a simple open records request researchers found (to no one’s surprise) CU recruits and hires based on race. Those who check the BIPOC box (black, indigenous and people of color) get the benefit of CU’s institutional racism.
Not only is this a blatant violation of the Civil Rights Act, which CU turned a blind eye to, it teaches tens of thousands of students that, to get ahead professionally, they must embrace their victim identity.
I did find one department at CU turned its back to racial parity — athletics.
The Buffaloes head football coach Deion Sanders has brought a new excitement for the first time in a generation. This is likely because winning is more important to him than racial equity. To test this, I perused the team’s website to see how ethnically representative his department is compared to the state. After all, it is Colorado’s flagship university. Shouldn’t it “look” like Colorado?
I mean, in the other departments CU is using the same philosophy of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Deputy Chief, and race-over-merit enthusiast, Kristine Larson. Defending her race-based hiring, she said, “You want to see someone that responds to your house, to your emergency — whether it’s a medical call or a fire call — that looks like you.”
I know when I had my heart attack my first concern was the racial and gender identity of the medical workers racing to save my life. That’s, that’s just normal.
Likewise, football fans also want to see players who look like them. That’s much more important to fans than anything merit-based, like winning games.
Addressing concerns female firefighters may not be strong enough to carry a man out of a burning building, Ms. Larson responded, “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”
If physical strength doesn’t matter in life-or-death situations like being trapped in a burning building, then why would it matter on something as trivial as a football game? The University of Colorado’s overpaid elite overlords obviously agree.
And that’s why I expected racial equity on Folsom Field.
Remember, according to the U.S. census, Colorado’s population is roughly 62% white, 12% black, 19% Hispanic and 6% Asian.
Odd, then, that at a cursory glance of the 46 pictured who make up Coach Prime’s staff only 16 appeared to be white. For those who received a Liberal Arts degree from CU, I’ll do the math for you. Only 21% of his staff is white. And only three, around 6%, are female.
The players he recruited also show no racial equity. Of the 99 players on the roster, it looks to me only 28 of them are white. Not to mention the institutionalized sexism CU obviously promotes — not a single chick on the team.
Here’s CU’s separate-but-equal race policy: On the field — use merit. Off the field — use Jim Crow (hire by skin color).
Sensing the political winds of change, CU just renamed its Office of Diversity to the Office of Collaboration. I’m sure those who made the change are equally supportive of President Donald Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of America. CU’s known for intellectual consistency.
There is no “reverse racism,” there is only racism. It’s foul and only made worse when perpetuated by your tax dollars. Oh, and if anyone in the victim-pimping industries care, it’s illegal.
Unless you want CU to force three times more white guys on its football team?
As Colorado considers nuclear energy as an option, what happens with the nuclear waste? Where would it go and how much would there be? PowerGab Hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke discuss this and more.
Show Notes:
Nuclear storage plans in Northwestern Colorado
https://coloradosun.com/2025/01/18/nuclear-waste-storage-colorado-rio-blanco-county-rangely/
https://coloradosun.com/2025/01/29/nuclear-waste-storage-hayden-routt-county/
Chris Wright Lays Out DOE Priorities
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-energy-baseload-generation-nuclear-transmission-wright/739412/
Transparency is a key to government accountability. Often judges have to order that public information become, well, public. How very odd then, that many judges refuse to follow transparency laws themselves. Retired Judge Dennis Maes explains.
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