Another Sarah Palin thread to make you cry:

[xsited1]

Palin: Oil Spill Proves We Were Right About 'Drill, Baby, Drill | TPMDC

She's not helping women politicians.

No she's not. Pity, isn't it.

We've got Palin and Pelosi. I blame the letter 'P'.

 

[sangha]

She's not helping women politicians.

No she's not. Pity, isn't it.

We've got Palin and Pelosi. I blame the letter 'P'.

I think *cough* pawlenty *cough* you might be on to something there.

 

[Sinatra]

But it’s not just ANWR; it’s our Petroleum Reserve, too. As Governor Sean Parnell noted today in the Wall Street Journal:


“Federal agencies are also now blocking oil development in the National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska.

Although familiar with ANWR, most Americans are less likely to know about NPR-A and how vital it is to our energy security. Given recent developments, it’s time to elevate the position this area holds in our national discourse.

NPR-A, a 23 million acre stretch of Alaska’s North Slope, was set aside by President Warren Harding in 1923 for the specific purpose of supplying our country and military with oil and gas. Since 1976 it has been administered by the Department of the Interior, and since 1980 it has been theoretically open for development. The most recent estimates indicate that it holds 12 billion barrels of oil and 73 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

In addition to containing enormous hydrocarbons, NPR-A is very close to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which means that there would be relatively little additional infrastructure needed to bring this new oil to our domestic market.

But even here, progress has been stalled.”


Sarah Palin: Extreme Enviros: Drill, Baby, Drill in ANWR ? Now Do You Get It? | Facebook

 

[random3434]

Drill Baby Drill!


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn2Tyh6b5dE]YouTube - Palin's 'Drill Baby Drill' Vs. Oil Spill[/ame]

 

[sangha]

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Safe drilling areas?

You mean like the gulf of mexico?

 

[Sinatra]

Safe drilling areas?

You mean like the gulf of mexico?

Yes.

I suggest you actually read the Palin opinion. It is absolutely correct.

The disease of extremism that infects the American environmental movement has pushed common sense means of energy production to the boundaries of capability.

Offshore drilling in more shallow areas, which is highly restricted, would in this same case, resulted in the leak having been capped much more quickly, and a far less damaging spill taking place.

Add to the fact that we have millions of acres of land that could also provide substantial sources of energy, that are being regulated away and thus increasing dependence upon foreign sources of oil, and we see the madness of this nation's energy policy.

You see, we are NOT saving the environment by following environmental extremism in America, but just the opposite. That oil is being drilled far less safely in other parts of the globe, and then transfered via ship, (and ships account for far greater spills over time than is currently taking place in the Gulf) to America. So in effect, we produce more danger to the environment, more dependence of foreign oil, and produce LESS jobs her in America.

Environmental sanity must return to America, and oddly enough, this Gulf Oil spill will help to provide the incentive for just that result...

 

[Political Junky]

In her October 2008 vice presidential debate with Joe Biden, Palin specifically took aim at him for opposing offshore drilling efforts.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Because she's an idiot?

This woman I swear is dumber than my ex-wife who once said, not joking, that she thought our nation's capital, Washington, was in the state of Washington.

And yet, Palin is still Einstein compared to her fans...

Well, what does that say about YOU?
you married the ex-wife.
so just who is the "dumb" one.

oooopsi

I only married her. I didn't want her to be president.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Of course just two months ago, in a widely circulated missive, Palin attacked President Obama's plan to open up large swaths of the U.S. coastline to potential drilling for being too little, too late. "[L]et's not forget," she wrote, "that while Interior Department bureaucrats continue to hold up actual offshore drilling from taking place, Russia is moving full steam ahead on Arctic drilling, and China, Russia, and Venezuela are buying leases off the coast of Cuba."

Palin: Oil Spill Proves We Were Right About 'Drill, Baby, Drill | TPMDC

She doesn't seem to get that once we lease the properties, and the drillers pay the royalty, the oil goes on the market. It doesn't go to us.

 

[Mr Natural]

There's over 3,500 oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. If that many hasn't gotten us energy independance by now, the addition of more probably won't either.

And as for St Sarah, if she had an ounce of common sense she might realize that now's probably not a good time to be shooting her big mouth off about the virtues of offshore oil drilling.

That's if she had an ounce of common sense. . .

oh really, when is a good time by your standards.?
I guess we should JUST ALL shut up our mouths.

Not all of us, just you and St Sarah.

 

[Care4all]

Of course just two months ago, in a widely circulated missive, Palin attacked President Obama's plan to open up large swaths of the U.S. coastline to potential drilling for being too little, too late. "[L]et's not forget," she wrote, "that while Interior Department bureaucrats continue to hold up actual offshore drilling from taking place, Russia is moving full steam ahead on Arctic drilling, and China, Russia, and Venezuela are buying leases off the coast of Cuba."

Palin: Oil Spill Proves We Were Right About 'Drill, Baby, Drill | TPMDC

I don't see how she is wrong here. One can argue that you don't want offshore drilling off the coast of the US, but there are huge resivours of oil between the US and Cuba, and offshore drilling will happen in the gulf no matter what we say about it. The drilling will be done by the Russians and the Chinese, whose environmental records are such that BP would be considered a model of environmental good citizenship.

18 months from now, we will have great reefs of oils floating in from Cuba if Russian history is anything to go by. We can't stop it, but we can manage it better.

And the US does want gasoline in large quantities. We either produce it here, under sensible regulation, or it comes in from places like Iran and Saudi, and it funds psycho groups. You get to make Hobson's choice. It is not a fun, easy, or happy choice. But if we are going to continue to consume gasoline at the rate we do, then it is a choice we have to make.

doesn't the majority of our foreign oil come from mexico and canada and perhaps Venezuela too? we could go to american friendly foreign sources to fill most of our oil/gasoline needs and dump the saudi's and iraqi's couldn't we?

 

[MaggieMae]

Is this the money quote?

"[L]et's not forget," she wrote, "that while Interior Department bureaucrats continue to hold up actual offshore drilling from taking place, Russia is moving full steam ahead on Arctic drilling, and China, Russia, and Venezuela are buying leases off the coast of Cuba."

Where is she wrong?

She's only wrong by placing the blame in one place. Palin forgets to look to some of her own party's advocates of bans on offshore drilling because their own constituents don't want to look out over their pristine beaches and have oil platforms obstructing the view. She's infamous for her hypocrisy in blaming only select individuals and/or agencies which have been responsible for the same types of moratoriums and regulations as she now criticizes the present group of lawmakers.

 

[MaggieMae]

Ugh.

Another Palin thread.

What is the attraction?

Cripes...

I'm with you on that Ms. Sinatra!

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/119041-palin-to-obama-stop-passing-the-buck.html

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/117902-sarah-palin-a-real-feminist.html


http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/107709-palin-power-rick-perry.html

If Sara Palin is a "feminist," I wonder if she supported Houston's new gay mayor, Mary Parker?

 

[MaggieMae]

Great link! Palin was on fire with that opinion regarding Obama's complete lack of leadership abilities!!!! Yes!!!!!!!!!

Ooohhhh, did you feel a tingle down your leg?

 

[sangha]

Safe drilling areas?

You mean like the gulf of mexico?

Yes.

I suggest you actually read the Palin opinion. It is absolutely correct.

I did. It's absolutely hilarious

Offshore drilling in more shallow areas, which is highly restricted, would in this same case, resulted in the leak having been capped much more quickly, and a far less damaging spill taking place.

You just admitted that offshore drilling is unsafe. You lose

Besides, Palin opposes any restrictions on off-shore drilling. She doesn't support banning it in deep water

Add to the fact that we have millions of acres of land that could also provide substantial sources of energy,

Oil companies already have leases and permits on millions of acres of land that they are not drilling in. They don't need more. They need to get off their butts and get to work

that are being regulated away and thus increasing dependence upon foreign sources of oil, and we see the madness of this nation's energy policy.

There is only one thing that increases our dependence on foriegn oil - our continued use of oil. Allowing oil companies to drill will not decrease our dependence on foreign oil because the oil will get sold on an open market and so it will not necesarily be available for americans to buy

You see, we are NOT saving the environment by following environmental extremism in America, but just the opposite. That oil is being drilled far less safely in other parts of the globe, and then transfered via ship, (and ships account for far greater spills over time than is currently taking place in the Gulf) to America. So in effect, we produce more danger to the environment, more dependence of foreign oil, and produce LESS jobs her in America.

Damn those environmentalists. I don't know why they supported off shore drilling!!!

Environmental sanity must return to America, and oddly enough, this Gulf Oil spill will help to provide the incentive for just that result...

Yes, the BP leak has revealed the environmentalist for the offshore drilling supporters they secretly are. Thank god we have Palin who has always opposed offshore drilling, except when she supported it.

 

[Sinatra]

You see, we are NOT saving the environment by following environmental extremism in America, but just the opposite. That oil is being drilled far less safely in other parts of the globe, and then transfered via ship, (and ships account for far greater spills over time than is currently taking place in the Gulf) to America. So in effect, we produce more danger to the environment, more dependence of foreign oil, and produce LESS jobs here in America.

 

[sangha]

You see, we are NOT saving the environment by following environmental extremism in America, but just the opposite. That oil is being drilled far less safely in other parts of the globe, and then transfered via ship, (and ships account for far greater spills over time than is currently taking place in the Gulf) to America. So in effect, we produce more danger to the environment, more dependence of foreign oil, and produce LESS jobs here in America.

You're so shook up, you're stuttering

 

[MaggieMae]

Sarah Palin has a vested interest in drilling everywhere possible in Alaska.

Alaska: State with a long history of take and give - USATODAY.com
Residents here pay no state income taxes or state sales taxes. And this year they are the beneficiaries of the greatest period of government-to-citizen largesse in state history, where getting a yearly check from the government is a decades-old tradition.

Under Palin's watch, the state added $1,200 to the annual checks sent to Alaskans as part of what's called the Permanent Fund Dividend, a stipend from the proceeds of the state's more than $30 billion oil-rich investment account. That translated to a record $3,269 this fall for every eligible man, woman and child in Alaska -- almost $23,000 for a family of seven like Palin's.

 

[HUGGY]

Forget things like energy and foreign policy. Why can't she just learn to keep her foot out of her mouth?

Huh? How do you think she got a job at FoxNews?

Demonstrating her best drilling technique on a couch in Roger Ayles Office?

 

[Sinatra]

You see, we are NOT saving the environment by following environmental extremism in America, but just the opposite. That oil is being drilled far less safely in other parts of the globe, and then transfered via ship, (and ships account for far greater spills over time than is currently taking place in the Gulf) to America. So in effect, we produce more danger to the environment, more dependence of foreign oil, and produce LESS jobs here in America.

You're so shook up, you're stuttering

Just waiting for a comprehensible response to the above!

Thank you!