Sarah Palin e-mails shows hostility toward Big Oil as Republican governor of Alaska

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Source: The Washington Post

Sarah Palin for the most part hews closely these days to the Republican Party’s political orthodoxy. She says she hates President Obama’s health-care legislation; favors a smaller, less-costly government; stridently opposes abortion; and believes in American exceptionalism.

But on one issue in particular — the party’s long-standing ties to large oil and gas companies that have helped underwrite its attempts to seize and hold power in Washington — the Palin that emerges from e-mails during her Alaska governorship is a definite renegade.

Scornful, dismissive, avoiding and demeaning — these were her persistent attitudes in private as well as public dealings in 2007 and 2008 with oil giants ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and BP, which produce most of Alaska’s energy and thus accounted for around four-fifths of its tax revenues.

While a book she published last year still displays her animus for “Big Oil” and proudly recounts her decision not to “pal around” with its lobbyists, these criticisms feature less frequently in her rhetoric now. And on the national political stage, she’s been supportive of the industry’s aspirations to expand deep-ocean drilling, famously telling a crowd of Florida supporters before the 2008 election, “Drill, baby, drill.”

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[Ian David]

1. She wants small, mom-and-pop oil companies to drill, baby drill? n/t

[mrcheerful]

2. Well yeah, to get oil companies to pay big bucks you have to play hard ball

with them to extort the cash flow wanted. Why because thats the way griftings played.

[Anakin Skywalker]

3. Over here, it says she wants to suck Tony Hayward's oil pipe!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4881349

So which one is it? So she both hates and loves Big Oil depending on when it's convenient for her?

[OnyxCollie]

4. Sarah hearts bp.

That's where Todd used to work.

Maybe she only hates ExxonMobil, Conoco Phillips, and Chevron.

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[Hoopla Phil]

6. I guess it's possible to like the concept, but be pissed at those that

execute the idea.

[Javaman]

7. In other words, she wasn't getting a big enough cut.

remember, she is a grifter after all.

[ItNerd4life]

8. She was the darling of Democrats while she was doing this. nt