Energetically Wrong(Palin % Domestic Energy Alaska Supplies)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Newsweek

Palin claims Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." That's not true.

Alaska did produce 14 percent of all the oil from U.S. wells last year, but that's a far cry from all the "energy" produced in the U.S.

Alaska's share of domestic energy production was 3.5 percent, according to the official figures kept by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

And if by "supply" Palin meant all the energy consumed in the U.S., and not just produced here, then Alaska's production accounted for only 2.4 percent.

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Furthermore, Palin said "energy," not "oil," so she was actually much further off the mark. According to EIA, Alaska actually produced 2,417.1 trillion BTUs of energy in 2005, the last year for which full state numbers are available. That's equal to just 3.5 percent of the country's domestic energy production.





Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/id/158656

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Article points out that McCain is also repeating this falsehood - as recently as Thursday!

And her foreign policy expertise is energy!

[chicagoexpat]

1. What objective analysis is there on Pallin's supposed expertise in energy?

Your reference indicates she doesn't know a basic fact on the issue.

What did she do, say, or propose that she's anointed an "expert" in energy issues?

I asked this elsewhere:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7052572&mesg_id=7052572

[Terran]

2. Yeah, I think maybe you got your answer.

Because I'm SO sure she put that pipeline deal together by herself...

[The Woodpecker]

9. That pipeline will never get off the ground

[krkaufman]

14. Even if she did help make it happen, it doesn't make her an "energy" expert n/t

[RamboLiberal]

3. Self-Appointed by being Governor of AK for 20 months n/t

[jmowreader]

12. Her "expertise" in energy matters...

stems from the fact she's an Alaskan, and that her husband is employed in the oil industry.

If being an Alaskan makes you an expert on energy, the fact I'm from Idaho means I am an expert on potato farming.

In reality, her expertise on energy seems to be the knowledge of how to put gas in her car.

[Miss Chybil]

4. I'm starting to get bored with this Palin woman. nt

[demigoddess]

5. really, really bored

me,too

[hay rick]

6. bored or scared? n/t

[RamboLiberal]

10. Yeah - she may just bore her way in to the WH

with the stupidity of the American voter who votes like its American Idol.

[mwb970]

11. I'm just tired of her endless lies.

I don't think I have ever heard Palin say anything in a speech that wasn't a lie, an exaggeration of her record, or an undeserved smear. In her (one) interview, she revealed her lack of the national and international knowledge and experience required to be VP. "In what respect, Charlie?"

The last VP who had never met a single world leader before taking office was Spiro Agnew, whose only pre-VP experience was being governor of Maryland for a few years. He had to resign in disgrace over a bribery scandal that we didn't know enough yet to call Highwaygate. Following his resignation, his boss Richard Nixon was forced to step down as well as a result of Watergate.

These Republicans sure can govern, can't they?

[jacobfloyd]

7. Wow. You literally have to factcheck.org everything they say at this point

They are running on a LIE Platform.

[sop]

15. I think that's their strategy

Keep the other side and the media so busy setting the record straight they don't have any time or money left to get out their own message.

[kristopher]

8. She also made the claim to CNBC on 8/29/08.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/26462569
Friday, 29 Aug 2008
CNBC Exclusive Interview: CNBC's Maria Bartiromo Speaks One-on-One with Vice Presidential Candidate and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin (Transcript Included)

[krkaufman]

13. But McCain said she know more about energy than anyone else in the country. I'm confused. n/t

[JerseygirlCT]

16. K&R

Perhaps the media are finally coming out of their adoring Palin coma?

[Spinzonner]

17. In all fairness ...

I think she was promised there would be no math.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

18. Actually, McCain said it first last week...

So Palin is repeating false talking points about herself.