Sarah Palin has been in charge of 20% of America's Energy for the last 2 years?

Question

Hows that working for you?

This is according to McCain.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRmNgaKE7oX7uzyfyPS4isBUwTDgD92VI3TG0

Answer 1

Hmm... McCain has been a little easy on actual facts so I don't believe it. We definately have an energy problem and the republicans are responsible for that.

Answer 2

Not her, but BP which employs her husband owns most of the North Slope oil and gas.  There will be a lot of gas available when they get that gas pipeline built.

The real honcho is Bob Malone

Key accountabilities: Robert (Bob) Malone is BP's chief representative in the United States. He is based in Houston, Texas where BP business units are involved in oil and natural gas exploration and production, refining, chemicals, supply and trading, pipeline operations, shipping and alternative energy. He is also a member of the BP executive management team.

Education: He holds a Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a Master of Science in Management.

Career: Bob Malone started his career in 1974 as a junior metallurgical engineer at Kennecott Copper Corporation in Ely, Nevada. Over the next 4 years, he had various plant and environmental engineering roles which in 1977 lead to an operational leadership position as Director of Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) for the Nevada division. In 1979, Bob became the Manager of Safety and Security for the western mining division located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and then went on to become Assistant to the Chairman and President of Kennecott Corporation in 1980.

In 1981, Kennecott was acquired by Standard Oil of Ohio (SOHIO), and in 1987, British Petroleum acquired SOHIO, and Kennecott became part of BP Minerals America. During this period, Bob was the Director of HSE for both Kennecott and BP America.

From 1988 to 1989, Bob was a Sloan Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His next BP post was the Vice President of Operations at the Carborundum Company of Niagara Falls - a subsidiary of BP America, Inc. In 1993, he became President of BP Pipelines Alaska, and then in 1996, Mr. Malone was appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (APSC), operator of the Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline.

After four years of running APSC, Bob became Western Regional President for BP America until 2002 when he became Chief Executive of BP Shipping Limited responsible for BP's global shipping operations. He was appointed into his current role as Chairman and President of BP America Inc in mid 2006. He was also named Executive Vice President of BP plc and a member of the group chief executive committee.

External Roles: Mr. Malone has served on the California Climate Action Registry Board of Directors, the Board of the National Petroleum Council, and was a member of the Board of Regents for the University of Alaska system. He is on the Board for the Alliance to Save Energy, the Executive Committee for the American Petroleum Institute and is a member of the Business Roundtable Organization.

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Answer 3

LMAO !!

SARAH PALIN INVENTED OIL !!

Answer 4

Correct.

Do you enjoy heating or cooling your house?

Driving a gas vehicle?

Turning on the lights?

Thank Sarah Palin.

Answer 5

Yeah, that works...sounds plausible...how's it work for you? lol

Answer 6

Pretty d**n s**+tty, thanks for asking.

Answer 7

McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

Answer 8

Palin promised plenty petroleum

Answer 9

LMAOThe best part of the article is that McCain gave her credit for having a great foreign policy, based on the fact that Alaska is close to Russia.  

WHAT a clown.

Answer 10

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

-AP

Answer 11

Plain is just like GW. Bush  coming from a oil rich state but she  had no control over any of it what so ever. So all this is just lies that will be fact check over and over again So the Moose hunting Mayor from Alaska can read a prepared republican speech but if  Palin was so tough why is McCain sheltering her from answering question about the issue this country is facing pit bull my @ss more like a poodle with lipstick .

Palin have a lot of question to answer before the americans peoples will trust or even vote for her , She did well in reading the republican written speech off the TelePrompter last night i don't think anyone out side that RNC building is ready to put her one step away from being president of this country .

OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

Answer 12

The problem is we dont controll enough of our own oil. She is doing a great job in Alaska, Obama even signed on her oil pipeline. I guess he agrees with her too.

Answer 13

I love how Americans believe that all politicians have totalitarian power over their individual states. It's so bloody shortsighted and cute. Look, nobody can control their state completely. She has 20% of energy, but she doesn't have absolute control over how to use it. If she did, it wouldn't be a democracy.

Answer 14

McCain appears to have a limited grasp on reality.

He wishes it were so and in his addled brain drilling would make it so. Perhaps someone should tell him if he were to win, she would no longer be governor...

Answer 15

If that's the case then why are we fighting in the Middle East?

AK may have oil reserves up the wazoo, but our energy comes from around the globe and whatever they think they can suck out from under the tundra or the ocean floor will last us about a day and a half.

Answer 16

She's done a pretty crappy job of handling it since energy prices have tripled in the last 2yrs.

She also bragged about how she gave Alaskans an $1200 check from all the extra profits they made.  So Alaskans got some cash at the expense of the rest of us poor saps.

Answer 17

I like the part more where he says Palin is capable

in foreign policy matters because Alaska is right

next to Russia.

Answer 18

Lord help us!

Answer 19

Energy costs have been going throught the roof.  Do we really need another oil person (Bush) in the White House?

Answer 20

It would be working a lot better if they'd let her drill in ANWR so Alaska could provide America with more domestic oil.

However, the Democrats in Congress have repeatedly blocked that, forcing us to buy oil from the middle east and Venezuela.

I don't know about you, but I'd much rather buy it from Alaska.

Answer 21

Sarah "the puppet" Palin is a small but mallable tool of Exxon. Nothing more, nothing less.