Palin Overstates Energy Experience-Policies as Governor Reveal No Energy Expertise

She's a fraud, from soup to nutso.

Palin Overstates Energy Experience
Palin's Policies as Governor Reveal No Energy Expertise
By Laura McGann 10/6/08 12:01 PM

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A close examination of Palin’s energy background, however, reveals that the GOP vice presidential candidate has only a relatively short history of studying and working on this issue. Palin served as chairwoman of a state energy board, a position reserved for a private citizen, for 11 months. A year before running for governor, Palin joined a group of other Republicans in TV ads advocating an all-Alaska gas pipeline route, though she eventually didn’t support this in office. As governor, Palin made a series of distinctly populist energy decisions that yielded short-term political gains, rather than policies designed for the long-term benefit of Alaska.

In more than a dozen interviews over the course of a month with Alaska insiders and close observers of state politics, most say Palin does not have a deep understanding of energy policy as she has claimed on the presidential campaign trail. In fact, she’s regularly described, even by those who support her policies, as having little expertise in the area.

There are a number of specific criticisms. Palin’s been accused of taking credit for the work of her predecessor, Gov. Frank Murkowski, in pushing through oil tax policy changes; promoting policies that may not actually further her pro-drilling mantra; hiring a personal friend and college drop-out to head a $40-billion oil revenue fund; calling the gas pipeline project a success, though it may never be built, and ignoring the root causes of the state’s consumer energy problems.

On the campaign trail, Palin has frequently touted her experience in standing up to big oil by supporting a windfall profit tax as an example of her energy experience. Though Palin now praises the plan, which has filled the state’s coffers with billions in additional revenues, she opposed the measure when running for office in 2006.

“I guess I don’t see her, personally, as an expert on the {oil} industry.” said Oliver Scott Goldsmith, economics professor and director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. “I see her as the person who’s taken a hard stance with the {oil} industry — when it’s been politically attractive to do that.”

In fact, a year before Palin pushed for higher taxes for oil companies, her predecessor, Murkowski, Alaska’s U.S. senator for 21 years before serving as governor, had laid the foundation for this hike, by instigating a new tax program.

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:)

.... ships that does not make her an energy expert. Just like
her claim about being able to see Russia from Alaska makes
her good on foriegn policy ..... btw she has never been to little
Diomede Island to see Russia from Alaskan soil.

expert?

(read BIG OIL)

no IQ.