Folks, if you're a Coloradan tired of watching your hard-earned dollars vanish into the black hole of your utility bill, this interview is your wake-up call—and a prime example of why big-government liberals are wrecking the Centennial State one mandate at a time. Jake Fogleman nails it: Colorado sits on an energy goldmine that could power our homes, create thousands of blue-collar jobs, and keep prices low enough for families to actually thrive. But no, the eco-zealots in Denver and D.C.—think Polis and his green-new-deal cronies—have saddled us with suffocating rules that ban drilling, force-feed unreliable windmills and solar panels, and pretend fossil fuels are the devil instead of the reliable backbone of our economy.

This isn't "climate action"; it's economic sabotage. We're talking 66 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and a trillion barrels of oil just waiting in the Mancos Shale, yet production is choked off by red-tape warriors who prioritize virtue-signaling over your wallet. The result? Higher bills to subsidize corporate cronies like Xcel Energy (headquartered in liberal Minnesota, by the way) who rake in over half their profits from us suckers in Colorado. And don't get me started on the lost tax revenue—less drilling means less money for schools, roads, and rural communities, forcing politicians to hike other taxes to cover their failed experiments.

Conservatives have been sounding this alarm for years: Unleash the free market, scrap the mandates, and let American innovation (not Beijing's solar panels) lead the way. Imagine lower energy costs fueling small businesses, putting more cash in workers' pockets, and making Colorado a beacon of prosperity instead of a cautionary tale of regulatory overreach. Time to vote out the anti-energy ideologues and drill, baby, drill—before your next bill feels like a second mortgage.