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• Tuesday, September 2, 2008 11:07 PM

  Of course she was vetted.

  First, her daughter's teenage pregnancy plays well to the religous right, which is very displeased with John McCain in general. It was probably a plus, in the minds of McCain's handlers (Rove & Co.).

  Second, she has an unblemished record of diehard support for fossil fuel interests - all the talk of her being a "reformer" is ridiculous. Even her husband is an employee of British Petroleum, who stands to make billions off the Transcanada deal that Palin brokered.

  For example:

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a bill authorizing the state to award a license to TransCanada Corp. to start developing a natural gas pipeline. Palin signed the bill on Wednesday in Anchorage, and expects the license to be issued within three months. The license allows TransCanada to move forward with plans to develop the 1,715-mile (2,760-kilometer) pipeline from a treatment plant at Prudhoe Bay to the Alberta hub.

  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/28/business/NA-US-Alaska-Gas-Pipeline.php

  That's for development of the highly polluting Alberta tar sands projects.

  Or this one:

  Washington Post, Aug 31, 2008

  The American Petroleum Institute and four other business groups filed suit Thursday against Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall, joining Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's administration in trying to reverse the listing of the polar bear as a threatened species.

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/30/AR2008083001538.html

  Similarly, she worked hand in hand with Randall Luthi of the Minerals Management Service, (Cheney's ex-aide from Wyoming) to get the Chukchi sea oil drilling lease sales pushed through. Here is what Palin has to say on that issue:

  "There are even bigger sources of crude than ANWR . . . such as offshore areas like the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea. Congress can help us with those areas right now, bringing even more energy than ANWR and bringing it quicker." - Sarah Palin

  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/02/america/Arctic-Ocean-Drilling.php?src=QHA089

  She also claims global warming is has nothing to do with the use of fossil fuels.

  All in all, her energy future outlook is identical to the Cheney program. Still, the right-wing blogosphere is vigorously denying she is involved with oil, though. This is pretty funny reading (linked):

  http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/sarah_palin_is_no_tool_of_big.html

  —CargoCult Read CargoCult's other letters
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