⚡️David Blackmon⚡️

Tucker is my friend for 30 years. We disagree often. I don't care. After my cancer treatments, deaf and sick and gutted, I was sure I was dying in 2021. We had moved to Florida and Tucker made time to join me for dinner. That was the first time I heard him say it, in that noisy island bar. “People around Trump keep getting hurt, Caputo. Really hurt.” He wasn’t talking about the President; he was talking about me. Yeah, I got the cancer. This NYT interview is really intense stuff for me to watch now. Man.

The bypass pipeline would effectively reduce vulnerability to geopolitical disruptions. Transports oil from the Gulf to the Mediterranean bypassing two major chokepoints: the Strait of Hormuz (Iran threat) the Suez Canal plus Bab el-Mandeb The only challenge is maintaining peace within the countries it passes through. Still easier than the alternative.

Bill Gates: “Cows make 6% of global emissions.” “You can either fix the cows, or make beef without the cow.” That’s the conversation now: not about farming, not about land use — but redesigning the cow itself.

Hello Senator from the arid desert Southwest. 5th generation Utahn from a farming/ranching family here. My ancestors settled the Great Basin, Arizona and parts of Mexico. We know a thing or two about drought. So did the early pioneers - who experienced it first hand long before the discovery adaptation of petroleum. Mormon pioneers arrived in Utah's arid Salt Lake valley in 1847. On day 1, they dammed City Creek, dug ditches to plant and irrigate dry soil & plant crops. Pioneers described the land as parched and requiring constant irrigation. They proved resilient and their community irrigation turned desert into productive farms. Brigham Young said : “We could not depend upon the rains of heaven... You need to co-operate in getting out your water from your water-ditches.” Isaac Haight (1848 journal): “Quite cold and very dry. Crops begin to suffer for want of rain.” Parley P. Pratt (scouting southern Utah): “No signs of water or fertility... sandy deserts, cheerless... barren clay.” Ephraim Green (journal, 1855): Noted extended dry periods with “no rain through the summer,” affecting crops in settlements." The reality is that severe drought has always affected the Southwest. It is cyclical in nature and we have a long history of adaptation in dry times. Periods of drought have been around long before the oil and gas industry. Fossil fuels (and the modern agriculture, irrigation, pumping, and energy they enable) are what let us feed people and manage drought impacts at scales unimaginable in pre-industrial “natural” eras. Blaming “fossil fuel pollution” for the recent La Niña period weather while ignoring history, natural cycles, and adaptation is just politics, not science. We’ll stick to the data. Droughts happen. They always have. We adapt with better tech, infrastructure, and yes—reliable energy. Not by pretending every dry spell is a man-made crisis manufactured by the industries that power America. Thank you for sharing your views. We will certainly keep them in mind.

Solar panels on farmland. You can’t eat solar panels.

I will raise taxes on billionaires—like me.