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Why Bernie and AOC Should Pound Sand!

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While Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez zigzag across America in private jets preaching the gospel of the Green New Deal, I just wrapped up a private tour of real environmentalism in action—courtesy of some gritty, gutsy domestic energy producers who don’t tweet about saving the planet. They’re too busy doing it.

Enter Prairie Operating Co. (NYSE: PROP), a publicly traded company that isn’t just pumping oil—they’re redefining how clean, responsible, and high-output American energy production can be. Their work isn’t some backroom pipe dream. It’s the practical, scalable, results-based path toward global energy security, human flourishing, and—believe it or not—environmental stewardship.

You want clean oil? That’s what PROP is producing.

Let’s get something straight. The future isn’t “no fossil fuels.” The future is better fossil fuels. It’s smarter extraction, lower emissions, responsible development, and innovation that actually scales. Because as Dr. Scott Tinker has rightly said, “The path to energy security and human flourishing runs through abundant energy—of every kind.” That means solar. That means wind. That also means oil, gas, nuclear, and hydro. We need more energy, not less. Energy poverty is real, and it’s deadly.

Prairie Operating Co. gets it. I just walked the Rusch Pad—a sophisticated site humming with the most advanced drilling and fracking tech in the business. Their newest acquisition, a fracking site just 15 minutes away, is poised to expand their capacity to a projected 28,000 barrels per day in 2025. That’s not just good news for American energy independence—that’s good news for every traveler, commuter, farmer, factory, and family that still relies on affordable fuel and reliable electricity.

And if you think fracking is a dirty word, think again. PROP’s techniques are environmentally sensitive and engineered for longevity and sustainability. One of the lesser-known but crucial methods they use is compounding sand into wells. No, not to destroy the Earth—but to protect it. This technique stabilizes the geological formation, creates open pathways for hydrocarbons to flow, and minimizes surface impact. The sand helps the earth do what it naturally does—just more efficiently. It’s precision. It’s preservation. It’s progress.

Meanwhile, what are Bernie and AOC doing? Racking up frequent flyer miles on Gulfstreams while pretending to care about climate change. And what’s the rest of the Green New Deal coalition offering? Pipe dreams of 100 percent renewables by next Thursday. If they had their way, you wouldn’t be able to heat your home, charge your car, or fly to see your grandkids—unless, of course, you had access to their elite circle of carbon indulgences.

Let me be brutally honest: PROP is doing more to help the poorest people on Earth than any climate summit ever has.

Because the ability to refrigerate food, purify water, run hospitals, or even keep the lights on is a luxury that billions in the developing world still don’t have. And no one is going to power Lagos, Dhaka, or Port-au-Prince on rooftop solar panels alone. Fossil fuels are still—and will remain—the bridge between third world survival and first world thriving. And Prairie isn’t just walking that bridge. They’re building it.

Unlike the energy activists whose only product is guilt and grid instability, PROP is producing results. And not only are they innovating at the wellhead—they’re also doing what no other energy producer has done: launching an educational campaign to counter the misinformation war on fossil fuels. At Oilfacts.com, you’ll find straightforward, fact-checked resources about how petroleum powers progress. No spin. No politics. Just truth.

In fact, if you want to know why fossil fuels are the heroes and not the villains in our energy story, you should absolutely check out Oilfacts.com. Because what you’ll find there is the common-sense reality that mainstream media and climate crusaders work overtime to hide.

Here’s a slice of it: fossil fuels are responsible for 98 percent of the things you use every day. Plastics. Medicines. Electronics. Transportation. Agriculture. And yes—even the wind turbines and solar panels themselves. There is no green energy without black gold.

Prairie isn’t trying to cancel other energy sources. They’re advocating a smarter, more realistic mix. That’s the path to abundance. That’s how you lift billions out of poverty. That’s how you extend human life, reduce disease, enable education, and liberate economies from medieval conditions. PROP doesn’t just get that—they’re invested in making it happen.

Meanwhile, Bernie and AOC continue to fly private while lecturing you about your thermostat. They sip oat milk lattes in climate-controlled conference halls while demanding bans on combustion engines. They pose. They posture. And they pound the table.

They should be pounding sand.

Because the future belongs to those producing energy—not those performing it. The future belongs to companies like Prairie Operating Co., who are keeping the lights on, the fuel tanks full, and the air cleaner than ever before. The future belongs to people who know that a thriving planet doesn’t come from utopian ideology, but from hard work, innovation, and yes—responsible fossil fuel development.

So the next time you hear a Green New Dealer warn that the world will end in 10 years unless you give up beef and buy a $90,000 EV, remember this: the real world is being powered by people like PROP.

And if that makes the climate crusaders clutch their compostable pearls—well, they can go pound sand too.