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When asked about Palin’s national security credentials. McCain’s answer was “Energy….She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America.”

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/9/11/101042/343

This is the same Sarah Palin who thinks Iran controls 20% of the world’s energy supply

http://climateprogress.org/2008/09/04/most-revealing-palin-energy-whopper-iran-could-cut-off-a-fifth-of-the-worlds-energy-supplies/

and who said:

“alternative-energy solutions are far from imminent and would require more than 10 years to develop.”

http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/aug/16/alaska_gov_wants_tap_oil_resources51051/

“I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can’t drill our way out of our problem”

http://www.omgili.com/newsgroups/talk/environment/C49F02AA10FDCleonard78spprimusca.html

Do you agree that Sarah Palin knows more about energy than anyone else in the USA, or has the Straight Talk Express broken down?

A lot of conservatives are trying to portray Sarah Palin as some sort of energy expert. Here are some Palin quotes.

She thinks it’s God’s will that a natural gas pipeline be built through Alaska.

“I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html

She seems to share McCain’s disdain for renewable energy.

“alternative-energy solutions are far from imminent and would require more than 10 years to develop.”

http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/aug/16/alaska_gov_wants_tap_oil_resources51051/

She thinks oil can solve our energy problems.

“I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can’t drill our way out of our problem”

http://www.omgili.com/newsgroups/talk/environment/C49F02AA10FDCleonard78spprimusca.html

Do you think the portrayal of Sarah Palin as an energy expert is justified?

http://climateprogress.org/2008/09/03/note-to-media-pork-queen-palin-is-earmark-expert-not-energy-expert/

regarding renewables being unproven, how about PG&E signing contracts for up to 900 MW of solar thermal:

http://www.pge.com/about/news/mediarelations/newsreleases/q2_2008/080401.shtml

800 MW of solar photovoltaic:

http://www.pge.com/about/news/mediarelations/newsreleases/q3_2008/080814.shtml

Not to mention all the wind energy already in use, particularly in Texas, just as a few examples to the contrary.

Plus Pickens believes that we can get 20% of our energy from wind power alone in 10 years, and the Bush Department of Energy believes 20% in 20 years (and that’s just wind!)

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/pdfs/41869.pdf

http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/12/must-read-bush-doe-says-wind-can-be-20-of-us-power-by-2030-with-no-breakthroughs/

gcnp – no, but I just read a plot summary. Interesting parallels indeed.