This is one of many personal vehicals worn out in public service. I ran this old Dodge Durango up to 300,000, most of it in public service trips around Wyoming. It’s old and tired, but still runs but I’ll probaly retire it from the Cheyenne-and-back one day trips. I’ll miss the array of high beam lights on the front. They have saved me from more than one late night critter encounters in my state travels, both domestic and wild. I’m not sure they are legal, but they keep me safe!

The battle to save jobs and maintain a solid tax base continues in Kemmerer. Decisions here will affect all of Lincoln County. That’s why I travel to Portland with a Commissioner and the Commission’s Chief of Staff to talk about the Kemmerer power plant operations.

That’s why I drop what I’m doing at a commission meeting in Kemmerer and race to Jackson for an invitation to attend an impromptu meeting with the Lincoln County based energy industry.

That’s why I have taken the topic to Washington and our D.C. delegation on many occasions.

That’s why I am in Cheyenne this week with our Lincoln County Treasurer Jerry Greenfield and a party that has interest in taking the county coal operations to the next step.

We can’t let up. The old school energy is still the source that supports the Lincoln County jobs, the tax base and powers the grid for the western U.S.  And, until that changes, I won’t let up and I hope it keeps our county officials, and for that matter all of Wyoming elected officials, sleepless until we secure a solid base of support in a changing energy picture.