Palin! Palin! PALIN!

by the Pirate on June 27, 2008

Can she be McCain’s Veep and still do what needs to be done in Alaska? There is no other area of this country as critical to assuring our petroleum reserves over the next few decades (beyond the Gulf Coast), other than Alaska. Yes, we need to drill on the Continental Shelves (Atlantic, and Pacific). And, yes, the Gulf Coast is nearly as fecund a source of petroleum as Alaska.

But every other area requires cooperation between states: the expertise isn’t concentrated like it is in the Last Frontier. Inter-state cooperation wouldn’t be rquired as it would be in the Gulf, and to harvest the shale oil in Utha, Colorado, and Wyoming.

If the Feds—and by that, I mean silly Northeastern congresscritters—would get out of the way, this could happen in a safe, efficient manner that would help to get the boot of Middle Eastern fascism off the faces of the normal people in the world while we develop more sustainably forms of energy.

Every other option we have on the table (other than building a few well-made, God-fearing nuclear plants) will take some new engineering. As Governor Palin states, drilling in ANWR is something we know how to do, and the area in question is a tiny sliver of land—akin to a metropolitan airport.

Plus, the whole operation is a stone’s throw from Prudhoe Bay, so we can do what we did there: but better, faster, and in an even more environmantally friendly way.

Plus, Palin is smokin’ hot. Look her in the face, consider how popular she is among her constituents, and tell me she’s wrong. Come on: it can’t be done.

Via Hot Air, which quoted my own Governor running off at the mouth about how he’ll keep his Hummer running by . . . . I dunno: getting Production Assistants to peddle really hard, and turning the thing into a giant, combat-ready rickshaw. I didn’t read Arnold’s critique really carefully. I think he likes being homecoming queen around here, and discussing realistic sources of energy would knock that crown right off his head.

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