Palin doesn't apparently understand energy as well as they all pretend...

[Bread and Circus]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/palin-stumped-again-on-he_n_133449.html

Palin Stumped Again On Her Strong Suit -- Energy

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If Gov. Sarah Palin, by John McCain's estimation, "knows more about energy than probably anyone in the United States of America," then why is she getting such basic facts about our nation's energy production wrong?

At a townhall event in Wisconsin on Thursday, Palin was asked by a concerned questioner whether it was true that the United States was shipping 75 percent of its Alaskan oil overseas. She responded by proclaiming it impossible, since Congress had put strict bans on the amount of oil and gas that America could export.

Not so. As the Associated Press reported:

No Alaska oil has been exported since 2004, and little if any since 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration and the
Congressional Research Service.

And Congress has never imposed outright bans on oil exports. Congress prohibited exports of Alaska oil in 1973 when the Alaska oil pipeline was built. But that ban was lifted in 1996 when there were large volumes of Alaska oil coming down from the North Slope and U.S. demand was soft.

The Alaska ban has never been reinstated.

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[mediaman007]

1. "Just a detail," said Palin.

[SoonerPride]

2. I'm shocked to learn that she's an empty hairdo.