The Rhetoric From the Campaign Trail About Fossil Fuel Sources

On September 25, 2024, Bob Boswell and Trent Loos joined the show. Boswell details how 31% inflation and regulatory overreach through enterprise fees threaten Colorado’s energy industry, warning that proposed disproportionately impacted communities regulations will eliminate Western Slope natural gas development Loos connects modern climate policy to the 1966 Cloward-Piven strategy, revealing how ocean CO2 emissions dwarf human contributions while warning that.

Inflation and the War on Colorado Energy

Start listening at 30:24 – Hour 1

Bob Boswell, CEO of Laramie Energy, warns that everyday commodity inflation has risen 31% in the first three and a half years of the Biden administration, hitting lower and middle-income families hardest. He explains how the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act poured trillions into climate initiatives based on what he calls a false premise, while Colorado piles on additional regulations through enterprise fees designed to circumvent TABOR protections.

Boswell explains that CO2 is nature’s fertilizer, noting that Earth dies at 100 parts per million, currently sits at 400 parts per million, and plant growth is most robust at 1,000 parts per million. With eight billion people to feed, he argues we need a CO2-rich environment and methane, which provides 70% of global fertilizer. The push to eliminate fossil fuels threatens essential elements of everyday consumption and quality of life.

The state’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission continues adding regulatory layers despite a supposed legislative moratorium through what Boswell calls the Grand Compromise. He points to the proposed “disproportionately impacted communities” regulations as the latest threat to Western Slope natural gas development, which would effectively eliminate infrastructure needed to produce the state’s cleanest-burning fuel. These regulations, targeting rural areas with sparse populations, would disproportionately hurt the very communities they claim to protect while eliminating jobs that are economically vital to those regions. The cost of energy will inevitably rise as production declines.

“The forecast of doom and gloom related to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a false premise.”

Bob Boswell, CEO of Laramie Energy

The Cloward-Piven Strategy Behind Climate Policy

Start listening at 74:48 – Hour 2

Trent Loos, sixth-generation farmer and rancher, connects modern climate policy to the 1966 Cloward-Piven strategy designed to overwhelm social systems and collapse economic stability. The strategy’s architects wanted to eliminate poverty by making everyone equally poor, throwing massive amounts of money into guaranteed income programs to create chaos and destroy economic stability until there is no distinction between wealthy and poor.

Loos reveals that Cloward and Piven stood behind Bill Clinton when he signed the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which established the automatic voter registration systems now used across states like Colorado. This Motor Voter law requires states to register anyone who applies for a driver’s license or public assistance, setting up the mail-in ballot system that now generates ballots for undeliverable addresses across the state.

On climate, Loos presents striking data: ocean surface temperatures contribute 330 gigatons of CO2 annually to the atmosphere while all human activity worldwide contributes just 37 gigatons. He argues the climate agenda serves political control rather than environmental protection, creating government dependency while restricting the ability to convert natural resources into essentials of life. His solution focuses on maintaining local infrastructure for food and energy production independent of state and federal mandates, drawing the line at county and community levels where citizens can maintain control over their own resources.

“They wanted to eliminate the poor, and they wanted to eliminate the poor by making everybody equal to the poor.”

Trent Loos, Sixth-Generation Rancher