Sarah Palin Says We Just Need to Tap What God Gave Us

Governor Sarah Palin was recently quoted in the Washington Times as saying “We need to tap the resources that God created, right underfoot.

The story ran in The Guardian, with a really sweet looking photo of a Caribou standing next to an oil pipeline in Alaska. Niiice Sarah!

When I first read the article, I thought that I might take the meat of the article and offer a point by point analysis and rebuttal. But then I thought, “Sarah is always saying that the press is demonizing her, but what she is really upset about, is the fact that the press is always quoting her.”

Well, what I’m going to do is quote her, and I’m going to offer opinion on what she has to say.

• America’s unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing.

What she is doing here is starting her attack by pointing it at the Democrats. The Democrats of course inherited this whole situation from the republicans. Now a lot of people are saying “It’s been six months and we’ve given away billions of dollars in a recovery plan that’s not working. We can’t blame the Republicans anymore.” I say “Wrong. The Obama Administration has done what it had to do with what it had. Instead of saying that we can’t blame the Republicans anymore, we should be saying, if even after all we’ve done, we are still where we are, can you imagine where we would be if we had done nothing?”

• Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges.

What Sarah is doing here, is making a very transparent attempt at saying “Don’t listen to what the Media is saying about me.” I really don’t understand this at all, in that Sarah seems to crave and loath the Media at the same time. She has proven time and again that she loves the “process” of sitting on an important board, running for Governor, or even running for Vice President. What she does not like, is being quoted or finishing what she starts. Sarah, thank God you didn’t make it to  the White House. If you cant finish a term as a Governor, how do you suppose you would have made it as the Vice President?

• I am deeply concerned about President Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy.

I understand why you don’t like this, Sarah. Here is how the dominoes are going to fall. Utility companies will have to pay for pollution certificates. Those costs will get passed on to the consumer. You call that a tax. Whatever. It’s the Utility Company passing cost on to the consumer. The consumer might cut down on their energy use, but probably not. Utility prices have been climbing for years. What will happen is that the money raised through the sale of these certificates will either be collected and given back to its citizens in the form of a rebate, or the money will go to the government or the money will go towards building renewable infrastructure. The last of these scenarios is the one that you don’t want to see.

• 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.
  

You actually just said something that I agree with. (Sort of) But I’d like to take it a step further by changing the word “foreign” with the word “fossil fuel.”

• 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.

All the easy coal and oil has been tapped Sarah. We wouldn’t be blowing the tops off mountains in Appalachia and dumping the fill in the valleys if coal was as abundant as it was 50 years ago. We wouldn’t be looking for oil under the melting ice caps if there was still easy stuff for the taking. We wouldn’t be talking about Shale Oil, which takes 5 times the energy to turn into oil, if the easy stuff was still around. We also haven’t proven that we can do any of what we have done in the past, or what you are proposing in the future, “responsibly” as you put it.

• We can safely drill for US oil offshore and in a tiny, 2,000-acre corner of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge if ever given the go-ahead by Washington bureaucrats.

Again, you wouldn’t want to drill in an Arctic Refuge is there is as much oil around as you would like people to think. You know what this tells me? We’re running out Sarah. Maybe not in your lifetime, but what kind of a legacy are you leaving for you new Grandchild?

• Of course, Alaska is not the sole source of American energy. Many states have abundant coal, whose technology is continuously making it into a cleaner energy source.

Your talking about “Clean Coal.” A technology still in it’s infancy and one that takes CO2 and buries it instead of releasing into the atmosphere. Sounds good, but have you told people that it will take 3 times as much coal to bury the CO2 while producing the same amount of electricity? Ooops, we just just did. So much for “taxing the American people” theory.

• We have an important choice to make. Do we want to control our energy supply and its environmental impact? Or, do we want to outsource it to China, Russia and Saudi Arabia?

This is not an either / or scenario. We can control our energy supply while actual improving our environment, without having to outsource it. How? Renewable Energy. Am I qualified to run for Governor yet?

You close, with a phrase borrowed from President Obama. “Yes, we can.”

Sarah, you are a Bridge to Nowhere.

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Source: The Guardian photo credit: zieak

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