More Drilly Than The Oil Companies
The two main positive things I’ve heard about Sarah Palin from conservatives, reflecting the current mishmash of contradictions that is the McCain platform, is that like McCain she takes on big oil while also loving oil drilling. What does that mean? Gregg Erickson from the Anchorage Daily News explains:
Silver Spring, Md.: You say she “took on” the oil companies, but that she favors drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. In what ways did she stand up to Big Oil, and in what ways might she be in their pocket?
Gregg Erickson: She is strongly in favor of oil development. She just wants the state to get a bigger share of the profits, and wants the companies to develop their Alaska resources faster than the companies consider profitable or prudent.
Meanwhile, energy issues are the one area of substantial national concern that Palin seems to have some real background in. But my general sense is that when people talk about an “energy issue” or crisis or problem, that they’re not trying to say that current policy doesn’t work well enough for oil producing regions of the world. Maybe I’m wrong.
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August 30th, 2008 at 11:36 am
How the worm turns– McCain is now publicly seen by the press going to a Starbucks.
Is this a sign of things to come (liberal domination of America)?
August 30th, 2008 at 11:38 am
what i like is that john mccain has actually picked a socialist! how else should we interpret “she just wants the state to get a bigger share of the profits?”
i hadn’t realized that the socialist vote was up for grabs, but there you have it!
August 30th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Is this a sign of things to come (liberal domination of America)?
I mean like an omen.
If you believed the media sterotypes, you might have thought that McCain’s first stop every morning was a little ol’ steak house where he happens to know the owner, where he wonuldn’t dare refuse a cup of coffee, and where grizzled old men gather every morning to tell whopping war-stories that they will swear are true, all too true! But it turns out McCain is a little Starbucks rat, and instead of sending a staff member out there who goes out there himself, accompanied by his wife, a bomb-sniffing dog, and a six-SUV entourage– that’s some Starbucks fan.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Wait, there’s something in Palin’s record we progressives might want to take seriously. She took on Big Oil by raising taxes on oil company profits. The one piece of evidence that she stands up to Big Oil is that she took Barack Obama’s position, a position that John McCain currently opposes.
She also cut Alaskans a $1200 check each as energy relief. Guess who’s energy plan that’s closer too?
August 30th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Than, not Then.
August 30th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
What’s next? Nationalization of Alaskan oil?
August 30th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
She took on Big Oil by raising taxes on oil company profits.
But she also took on Big Oil by using the state to actually encourage the destruction of the environment. Normally conservatives are content to let corporations loose to destroy the environment at their own pace. Someone who thinks the problem with capitalism is that it doesn’t destroy the planet fast enough is something we haven’t seen for quite a while. That’s Mao territory.
August 30th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
In FL, we’re glad Charlie Crist wasn’t the choice; maybe Charlie will get off this offshore drilling flip-flop he made only to please McCain. Charlie has such a great tan, you’d think he would have us going solar.
August 30th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I figured out why McCain picked Palin.
Like McCain – who laughed when a supporter asked in reference to Hillary Clinton “What can we do to beat that bitch” – here’s audio of Palin laughing on Alaska radio in January when the host calls Republican state senator Lyda Green a “bitch”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKkydrUnBZE
Incidentally, when asked about Palin, Lyda Green, who is the senate majority leader, said:
“She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? said Green, a Republican from Palin’s hometown of Wasilla. “Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?”
Here’s more on Palin and Green:
http://www.adn.com/opinion/comment/story/295464.html
August 30th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
The idea that Palin has strong experience with “Energy Issues” is a joke. Her “experience” is that she’s from Alaska, where we think there’s some oil, and that her husband works for an oil company. I’m interested in her policy on solar or geothermal.
August 30th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Washington, D.C.: What should we expect from her during the VP debates?
Gregg Erickson: I expect her to stick with simple truths. When asked about continued American troop presence in Iraq she said she knows only one thing about that (I paraphrase): no one has attacked the American homeland since George Bush took the war to Iraq.
……….
Ummm. I am really interested in the non-paraphrased answer now.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
“and wants the companies to develop their Alaska resources faster than the companies consider profitable or prudent”
Someone on NPR said she was really a populist. This sure fits that description, and as much as we’d like to pretend otherwise, Obama is going to have to a lot harder.
Now that the Clintons are on board, hopefully they can go negative for Obama without making him look bad.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Yeah, that should read “Obama is going to have to work a lot harder.”
August 31st, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Let me explain: Like most Americans, Palin understands we urgently need to develop our oil and gas resources and she favors drilling, something only the left wing fringe still opposes. However, under the Alaska constitution, Alaska rather than its property owners owns the rights to all its oil and gas resources. The oil companies have traditionally bought up Alaska politicians like Ted Stevens and Don Young and made out like bandits. Sarah Palin has represented the interests Of Alaskans versus the oil companies and has won more favorable contract terms, especially regarding the planned $40 billion gas pipeline, but she has also worked with the companies in pursuing their common interest of increasing production. Over 80% of Alaska’s government revenues come from oil and gas.
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