Dear Editor,
It must be difficult to call a press conference and suggest that President Biden’s ban on gas and oil permits is a “crushing blow” to Wyoming, when not so long ago, Mark Gordon was aligned with some of the most radical environmental groups in the country whose mission was to destroy fossil fuels.
Now that he is largely responsible for balancing Wyoming’s budget, I wonder if he has started to realize how important fossil fuels are to Wyoming and its people.
It is hard for me to discern if he is regretful of his past alliances or silently joyous that the end of fossil fuels is possible.
I find it interesting that Middlebury College in Vermont, a liberal arts college where he received his education, established in 1965 the first undergraduate Environmental Studies program in the United states. Afterward, they publicly committed to full divestment of the College’s endowment from the fossil fuel industry. It is all starting to make sense. He was born in New York, attended a boarding school in New Hampshire, and was educated at the most extreme liberal arts school in the nation that started the environmental movement we know today. Once he was an unabashed environmental radical. Now he is the governor of one of the most dependent fossil fuels states in America. That is what I call a paradox.
Rex Rammell
Rock Springs
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