The four minute video above is an interview with Sarah Palin speaking on the issue of energy, natural gas and drilling in Alaska, conducted before she was tapped by John McCain to be his running mate. She discusses Barack Obama, Joe Biden and energy.
One of the number one economic issues according to Battleground 2008, is the rising costs of gasoline and fuel. These are issues Sarah Palin has addressed at length in many interviews, including the one shown above.
Sarah Palin believes as stated in in the interview that many options need to be utilized in the fight to make our country less oil dependent and more energy savvy and one of those options is drilling, even in ANWR, she believes this can be done if the government would get out of the way.
As the chair of the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission, Palin learned a lot about energy issues, even before becoming Governor of Alaska as she battled and fought corruption from within her own party of Republicans and against oil companies, according to reports from the Anchorage Daily News.
In an Interview with Larry Kudlow, Sarah Palin stated "Obama is way off-base on all that. I think those politicians who don’t understand that we need more domestic supply of energy flowing into our hungry markets [are] living in la-la land. And we’re in a world of hurt if they’re agenda continues to be to lock up these safe, secure, domestic supplies of energy.”
That’s what Palin told me in a CNBC interview in late June. I call it drill, drill, drill. But in fact it’s a full-throated America-first energy policy that will create millions of high-paying jobs with complete government deregulation and decontrol of the full menu of energy sources: oil, natural gas, nuclear, clean coal, shale, and the alternative fuels of wind, solar, and cellulosic.
Palin feels very strongly about this issue and in a subsequent interview with Ludlow, expressed her frustration and was described as "furious" with Congress going on vacation without lifting the congressional ban on offshore drilling, saying, "Well, with all due respect to Congress, it’s pretty pathetic."
While Congress did take their summer vacation, Palin had gotten the Alaska legislature to a new natural-gas pipeline that was 30 years in the works.
Energy is an issue where Ludlow believes Palin, has more direct knowledge of the economics of energy that all three men on both tickets, McCain, Obama, or Biden, put together, because of her previous jobs and the position she holds now as Governor of Alaska.
H/T Weekly Standard
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