Palin flummoxed by question on Alaska's oil exports

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, promoted by Republican presidential nominee John McCain as his expert on energy, seemed to have problems yesterday explaining whether the government bans oil and natural gas exports, especially from her own state's North Slope fields.

A questioner at a town hall-style meeting in Wisconsin said he had heard at least 75 per cent of the oil drilled in Alaska was being sold to China and said if true he would like to know why.

"No. It's not 75 per cent of our oil being exported," said Palin, suggesting some of Alaska's oil may, in fact, may be going abroad but not that much of it.

"In fact," she then added, "Congress is pretty strict on, um, export bans of oil and gas especially."

No Alaska oil has been exported since 2004, and little if any since 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration and the Congressional Research Service.

But Congress has never imposed outright bans on US oil or natural gas exports.



Read more: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10536828

[grannylib]

1. ROFL holy cats...yeah, some 'expert.' She's just a phony all the way

around.
And are we surprised???

Hell NO. She's a fuckin' rePigliCon.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. That's some expertise right there, you betcha!

What an idiot. I guess, my republican standards, I can declare myself a brain surgeon, grab some scalpels and have at it! Wheee!!!! This is fun!!!! What do you want to be today?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


:crazy:

[City Lights]

3. The Big Dipper is drowning in her own stupidity. nt

[Shardik]

4. And she's supposed to be the big R "energy expert."

God, that woman's a freaking cheerleader ant that's all.

[Supersedeas]

28. and nadda clue what is going on in her own state

[kestrel91316]

5. I thought we sold most of our AK oil abroad because it wasn't up to our

high standards. I think I can be excused, as a cat vet with my head full of diseases and medications and surgery techniques. She HAS no excuse.

[SharonAnn]

7. When it was sold overseas, it was because the price was higher.

[ryanmuegge]

6. Hey man! She knows more than anybody in the country about energy,

according to John McCain. LOL!

[truthisfreedom]

12. Well he did qualify it with "just about anybody" as I recall. So there's some wiggle room.

Heh.

[ryanmuegge]

16. He's going to need it.

[Raster]

8. Palin: bush* in a skirt with LIPSTICK!

That's about all she's got.

[hay rick]

9. She must be reading the wrong newspapers...

and lots ofem. It's a good GUESS that a country that imports 70% of it's oil doesn't do a whole lot of exporting. To quote a leading American energy expert: "Oil & coal, Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag the molecules..."

[DogPoundPup]

10. "My fellow prisoners" Energy expert McFailin misstates congressional role

and the U.S. mainstream remains ....... s-i-l-e-n-t

[unkachuck]

11. winky....

....it's not important that you knew a person who did bad things when you were eight, it's not important that you're supposed to be an energy expert who doesn't know an answer to an energy question....what is important is whether you're a bullshitting liar....a screechy swift-boating demagogue....

"Congress is pretty strict on, um, export bans of oil and gas especially."

....the old-man heading your ticket unfairly said of Barack, "I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed."....and you're just a sweet innocent soccer-mom....do you believe the old-man?

....day after day your shrill pathetic lies echo across my TV set....day after day your character assassinations of Barack degrade our electoral process in a time of national and international crisis....the repugs may think that you're the best thing that ever happened....I find you disgusting....

[olddad56]

13. Is she qualified to be VP? Tha is no longer the question, the question is...

Is she qualified to be the governor of Alaska? I think the people in Alaska need to be thinking recall.

[lonestarnot]

15. She needs to have the first dude by her an ant farm to lord over and just

forget about what she doesn't really know.

[not fooled]

20. Parting gifts...great idea!

After McCrap and Failin' go down in ignominy:
Grampy: a rocking chair
Failin': an ant farm to rule over
:rofl:

[lonestarnot]

23. I like that! Big red nasty ones with a hole in the box.

[lonestarnot]

22. buy not by!

[Arctic Dave]

14. She must only be an energy expert with North Slpoe Oil & Gas.

Because the Swanson River and Cook Inlet gas fields(located on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska) have been selling natural gas to Japan since 1969.
Hear is an article from today.

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/09/09/3642228.htm

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. The greatest living expert on energy, ladies and gentlemen

The ten o'clock show is always different from the 8 o'clock show.

Tip your waitresses, please.

[progressoid]

18. Whatever...She's purdy.

:)

[Cresent City Kid]

19. I have an excuse

I don't know how much oil or gas Alaska exports, or if there's a ban, but hey, I'm not the governor of Alaska or a self proclaimed energy expert. She brags about her expertise on the subject to cover her lack of knowledge on EVERYTHING else, and doesen't know this either?

Somebody ask her a hockey rule and see if she flubs that one.

[not fooled]

21. Actually, this reply of hers reveals her expertise...

...which is in, not policy matters, but rather in LYING and BSing to try to fool the morans.

An accomplished fabricator.
:dunce:

[tblue]

26. Fabrication Accomplished!

[goforit]

24. brilliant...simply brilliant.

[tblue]

25. Dumb as a stump.

[merh]

27. The candidate that keeps on giving.

:rofl:

[daggahead]

29. Anybody willing to bet ...

that after McPlain loses the election, Playboy approaches Sarah Plain about posing?

[foxfeet]

30. Anybody willing to bet she accepts?

the appeal to her narcissism would be irresistible.

[frickaline]

31. K&R for Sarah the "energy expert"