[MCCAIN] “Energy. She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America. She’s a governor of a state where 20% of America’s energy supply comes from there. And we all know that energy is a critical and vital national security issue. We’ve got to stop sending $700 billion of American money to countries that don’t like us very much. She’s very well versed on that issue.”And, uh, she also happens to represent, be governor of a state that’s right next to Russia. She understands Russia.”
[PALIN] Let me speak specifically about a credential that I do bring to this table, Charlie, and that’s with the energy independence [see Cheerleading Lies] that I’ve been working on for these years as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy…
And another lie!
Alaskan production accounts for only 4.8 percent of all the crude oil and petroleum products supplied to the U.S. in 2007, counting both domestic production and imports from other nations.
According to US Energy Information Administration, the total supply was just over 5.5 billion barrels in 2007, and only 3.5% of US energy.
Man, what’s Palin been inhalin’? – comment at FactCheck.org.
Both nuts and cruel:
Senate conservatives voted down bipartisan legislation that would have “provided an additional $2.5 billion in funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP),” a federal program “that helps low- income families pay their cooling and heating bills.”
Conservatives trumpet the battle cry “drill drill drill” saying more gas and oil would do more to help struggling families pay for heating oil. These claims are a “shill shill shill’. [see Green Isn’t Crude]
“The choice is between a “pollution-based suicidal economy” and a green economy that lifts everyone up.” – Van Jones, founder of Green For All and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.