Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The conservatives in the heart of the nation seem to be leaning in the direction of putting Trump back in office. Many in this area of the country depend on farming for a living as we depend on them to keep doing that task and keep us fed. That area of the country has been found to contain deposits of oil and one of Trump’s comments was that if he is back in office it will be “drill baby drill”.

     Along with the drilling comes the maintenance of those wells which oftentimes includes fracking and that endangers the water table which is already low. So tell me again why this is a good idea. We can use oil for a lot of stuff, but we can not eat it and the production of oil does not exceed the life of our citizens. All this production creates is more money in the pockets of men like Trump that do not give a crap about anything but getting rich.

    The drilling is to take place in public grounds, what were national parks and national forest, anywhere there may be mineral wealth to be gained. The reason to take mercury off the dangerous chemical list is because it is a quick and cheap test for gold. Everyone needs to pay attention to everything. The sleight of hand tricks to distract are nothing more than a way to keep everyone watching one thing while another thing is taking place.

    If the predictions of a 100 year drought are real then we need to protect the water we have and learn to use it sparingly. A lot has been said about global warming and since this is halfway through Oct and the Phoenix area still has temperatures above 100 there could be some truth in the theory. 

    The idea that we need fossil fuel to produce electric power is not true. We have spots in the country that have lots of natural geothermal heat and we can use that for power production along with solar and wind. Tapping into that heat source may help us regulate the potential destructive power that is there, like YellowStone. That heat is present outside the park so we need not detract from that, but there is very little reason to not utilize the natural power that is there. If places like Iceland have managed to live with and prosper from having active volcanoes under foot we can do the same.