Energy Expert Sarah Palin Wrote an Op-Ed! With Words and Everything!
The Washington Post, a private Evite service, has some very linkworthy bait on its editorial page this morning: 600-plus words from Alaska governor Sarah Palin on a hot-button topic, "quitting." Ha! Whoops, see, this is why real news outlets have copyeditors.
I didn't mean "quitting." I meant "cap-and-trade." Ugh, take three. Of course I meant "cap-and-tax." Well here, Governor Palin explains it all for you…
There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources. But the answer doesn't lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive! Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America's economy.
Why is Nobama hell-bent on destroying our economy! What's in it for him! I guess he just gets some kind of sick pleasure from seeing everyone suffer!
Even Warren Buffett, an ardent Obama supporter, admitted that under the cap-and-tax scheme, "poor people are going to pay a lot more for electricity."
Warren Buffett did say that, and he is rich, so he must be right. The Congressional Budget Office thought otherwise, but the CBO is not rich, so screw them.
This op-ed has not found religion yet.
We must move in a new direction. We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil.
I will forgive Sarah Palin for taking eleven paragraphs to get to God, but only because she knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America.
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"Palin's arguement is essentially this: intervention is for suckers. If a meth addict wants to cure themselves of their meth addiction the answer isn't rehab. It's building their own meth lab and smoking more."
I couldn't have said it better myself! You deserve a fucking Pulitzer for that one.
I was thinking as I trekked my ass from coal mountain to coal mountain this morning… Palin's arguement is essentially this: intervention is for suckers. If a meth addict wants to cure themselves of their meth addiction the answer isn't rehab. It's building their own meth lab and smoking more.
My question is who wrote the letter for her? I have no doubt that she signed it and agrees with it, but don't believe she's capable of having written it.
I would like to take a moment to point out to Sarah Palin that I live in the West and I do not “literally sit on mountains of coal”. That would make my pants all black and dusty.
The concept that Palin fails to realize in her supply side economics argument: The United States does not have the oil reserves to supply its own energy needs. And regardless of where oil is drilled, it has the same price. If the US increases oil production by 1 million barrels a day in an attempt to drive down oil prices all China, Russia, or Saudi Arabia have to do is cut their oil production by 1 million barrels a day to stop the cost of oil from dropping.
Think of the oil market as a bath tub. All oil producers pour their oil continuously into the top. The flow rate out the bottom represents the global oil demand. The level of oil in the tub represents the price of oil. The higher the level of oil, the lower the price.
There are only two ways to lower the price of oil: increase supply or decrease demand. Palin wants to increase supply. Unfortunately, the US cannot increase supply for very long and any increases the US makes can be offset by decreases by other producers.
The only way to truly become “independent” is to reduce demand. Obama’s plan designed is to reduce demand. And it is true reducing demand is more painful, especially when you are as energy-addicted as the US is.
So, she quit her governorship to become a blogger. That's just effing brilliant!
"resources that God created right underfoot on American soil"
As long as God created the uranium buried in my back yard, why wouldn't I want it to be mined? Ask the local Indian tribes about that one.