McCain, Palin & Energy Flubs

The price of oil was barely at $60 per barrel in 2007. Until 2005 it was consistently below $40. There is also a congressional (environmentalist) ban on retrieving oil shale. If we could get rid of the limp wristed, corrupt politicians we would be energy independent overnight and could tell the Saudis to stuff it. What a great day that would be.

"It shakes down banks so they give mortgages to unqualified minorites."

When under stress, racist tendencies tend to surface in right wingers.

They usually suppress these sentiments as they know uttering such sentiments destroys their credibility with anyone but fellow racists.

"Thanks ACORN and Barak 0bama! You've driven this country to financial ruin. "

Was already taken care by the Bush-NeoCon cronies.

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Rob - The idea that oil shale can be extracted for $40/barrel is pure fantasy - and the reserves are not exhaustive. They are in the Green River formation, extraction is messy and expensive and quality is about as low as you can get. If extraction was cheap and easy, don't you think someone at Exxon would have started extraction 30 years ago? The Green River is in two of the reddist states in the US - not known for major environmental oversight. Your information is baloney.

"FACT the usa has 1.5 trillion barrels of oil in oil shale. it can be extracted and should be profitable at $40 per barrel. let's find out!!"

Wooohoooo strip mining for the whole West!

rob roske: "FACT the usa has 1.5 trillion barrels of oil in oil shale. it can be extracted and should be profitable at $40 per barrel."

Well then, do it. This is America, not socialist Russia. If you think it can be extracted for $40 per barrel, you just have to share how (I strongly suggest you patent your magic idea first) and hire the appropriate people to make it happen using the mountain of investor money that pours in.

Current percentage of natural gas supply from Alaska: 1.9%. Alaska does have enormous reserves - and BP estimates that it will take 10 years and $30 billion dollars to build a pipeline to the lower 48.

You McCain zealots should stop whining about bad press, you have your Fox channels. If you can handle critique, go live in your comfort zone and stay ignorant.

Maybe McCain was an authentic leader 10 years ago, but he has sold his soul to these spin-doctors and is now paying the price.
The Palin VP pick was not his first choice, so if someone is to be blamed it's the Karl Grove cronies. Sad...

FACT the usa has 1.5 trillion barrels of oil in oil shale. it can be extracted and should be profitable at $40 per barrel. let's find out!!

I was starting to feel sorry for Palin but guess her sharp tongue is out again.
BTW , I thought the Tina Fey spoof on SNL was just a joke. I didn't realize she said those words verbatim. As a life-long republican I am highly disappointed. I also understand that during a brief QA on Sat after the debates, she agreed with Obama's position on Pakistan rather than McCain's such that he had to correct her statement on ABC. This is just too much!
I watched Obama during the debate and was very impressed by his intellect, composure and forward thinking ideas. This republican will be voting for the democrat this year.

"I can't believe that McCain supporters could possibly turn greater transparency of government spending into a negative. McCain would have made this website happen if he had the technological knowledge as Obama (or any current jr. high student, but I digress). "

Especially ironic since this effort by Obama & Coburn was an expansion on the original transparency bill that McCain cosponsored.

You're out of your depth, here, Ryan. Google doesn't work that way and it would be incredibly inefficient. He probably meant a web site with a search engine although even that would tell you little about the budget because the spending is interlocked. It takes a hefty financial package to data mine that. Basic querying won't do it, and by the way, it's easy to game a google search as the last election showed."

I was using google as short hand for a search engine.

Even more so google or any other search engine can be easily adapted to search only certain terms or sections of the web. There are many ways to modify search engines to perform as you wish from simple tags to more complex algorithms.

As for your last line, perhaps you could tell us why a government agency would google bomb somnething?

There's someone who doesn't know what they're talking about and its not me len.

mara, you are a shill for the left. americas known oil shale reserves are at least 1.5 trillion barrels and should be profitable at $40 a barrel. look it up!!! wouldn't it be nice to find out if it really is profitable!!! by the way has anybody ever heard of an obama/ayres connection?

Joey. We get most of our natural gas from Canada. The McCain campaign was simply wrong. Sarah Palin used a number that sort of applied to the percentage of crude oil reserves out of all AMERICAN crude reserves - and applied it to energy. She just didn't know the difference. No matter how much you hurt the numbers, Alaska does not supply 18 or 20% of American energy. Which is why you haven't heard her repeat her mistakes.

No Obama: Yes, that liberal mainstream media that raised such a ruckus when the Republicans were fabricating lies to get us into Iraq, when bills to impeach Cheney and Bush were introduced, when it was pointed out that McCain's constitutional eligibility was technically in question, when it was Rev. Wright all the time, etc.

You're the same sort who blames the umpires for your team being last in the division.

"...the banking committee...which is my committee..."

Obama in a campaign speech earlier this summer.

Except he's not on the banking committee.

Palin will be quoting john McCain left and right at the debate, Bideen, just keep remindeing her that you have known John longer than she has and you know him better. Pound her with the facts, correct her when she is wrong and, call her on the fluff. These are serious times, and McCain has failed to select a serious running mate.

The United States has about 2% of the world's known petroleum reserves. The estimated proven reserves for the United States range from 20 to 29 billion barrels of oil. Global estimates range from 1,143 to 1,331 billion barrels. This isn't from the Obama campaign - it's from the Oil and Gas Journal and the World Oil review. John McCain didn't make a gaffe - he simply believes what he said. Sarah Palin thinks Alaska supplies 20% of US energy. Not anywhere close. Tapper's figures are right. I don't think anbody should expect a candidate to be an expert on everything - but if this woman was brought on board as an energy expert, she should at least know her own state and in an economy grounded in petroleum - and a foreign policy based on petroleum, John McCain should know better. Or he should find better advisors than Henry Kissinger and Phil Gramm. Good Lord, even George Bush never made mistakes like that.

Len: "You're out of your depth, here, Ryan. Google doesn't work that way and it would be incredibly inefficient. He probably meant a web site with a search engine..."

You're working awfully hard to try to make up a controversy. Of course the website doesn't use the Page ranks system - don't be absurd. Anyone who wants to can go to usaspending.gov and make their own call about what Obama did and how google'esqe it is.

I can't believe that McCain supporters could possibly turn greater transparency of government spending into a negative. McCain would have made this website happen if he had the technological knowledge as Obama (or any current jr. high student, but I digress).