Roundup Record Tribune & Winnett Times -

Bittersweet is that taste left after laughter following inappropriate words or actions by our elected officials. The entertaining, but inappropriate, reactions by some elected officials (representing states addicted to income from petroleum), following the cessation of new drilling permits for oil and gas on public land and water, evokes such a bittersweet taste. The officials’ short term fixation on monies derived from the production and sales of such a globally fatal substance is really no better than that fixation of those who profit from the sale of opioids. That petroleum extraction-...