Now granted, if you read Lawyers, Guns, and Money (which appears to have a freakish number of Alaskans blogging there), you would already know that Sarah Palin is utterly full of shit when she talks about the pipeline being built in Alaska. Sadly, not enough people read LGM, so the Times will have to do:
When Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska took center stage at the Republican convention last week, she sought to burnish her executive credentials by telling how she had engineered the deal that jump-started a long-delayed gas pipeline project.
***The reality, however, is far more ambiguous than the impression Ms. Palin has left at the convention and on the campaign trail.
Certainly she proved effective in attracting developers to a project that has eluded Alaska governors for three decades. But an examination of the pipeline project also found that Ms. Palin has overstated both the progress that has been made and the certainty of success.
The pipeline exists only on paper. The first section has yet to be laid, federal approvals are years away and the pipeline will not be completed for at least a decade. In fact, although it is the centerpiece of Ms. Palin’s relatively brief record as governor, the pipeline might never be built, and under a worst-case scenario, the state could lose up to $500 million it committed to defray regulatory and other costs.
The bullshit never stops with these people. Ever.
gbear
You almost have to admire her absolute consistency.
I blame Obama.
matt
Are you questioning the integrity of my generation’s Ronald Reagan?
Brian J
Excuse me, John. We have more important things to worry about, like Obama calling Palin a pig and McCain a fish and which angle to film the Palin family that is not in any way supposed to be in the news. Who cares about this pipeline that is at the center of their claims about energy? That’s so…elitist.
zmulls
This is sooooooo good for John McCain.
So is the dirty sexy money scandal at the Energy Department.
gbear
Even more full of shit. Michigan republicans want to use lists of forclosed properties to keep people from voting.
GSD
Your juxtaposition of the word pipe and the name Sarah Palin is obviously a phallicly symbolled attack on the virtue of the Joan of Arc of Alaska.
Continue these outrageous attacks at your own peril.
-Grand Old Pheminists
Stuck in the Fun House
They are clearly taking lessons from the master fool on Fooling the masses.
SpotWeld
So, the exact same reasons why this natural gas pipeline is taking so long to build are pretty much the same reason why it would take so long for any oil drilled in the ANWR to hit the market, right?
Even if the oil pumped go to the coast for transfer to a ship, it’s still got to go by pipeline from the drillsite to the port facility? (Which would also have to be built?)
lutton
>>The first section has yet to be laid,
unlike her daughter…
oops, is that over the line? Too bad…
JLW
Below is a link to a dkos diary titled “ALERT: Palin’s Pipeline is a Climate Crisis Acceleration Machine”. According to this diary, the pipeline Palin wants to build ends in the oil fields of Canada where the gas will be used to extract oil from the tar sands in Alberta. A trunk line to Valdez would make the gas available to the world energy market. The pipeline would also deliver gas to Alaskans, who appear to need it badly, but that is just a side benefit. There are no plans to connect the pipeline to the lower 48 states. The pipeline would also require a massive tax subsidy from the federal government. So the energy companies get the gas they need to extract oil from the tar sands, gas to sell on the world market, the state of Alaska gets gas for its citizens (a good thing) and massive tax revenues, and we get the bill. Sounds like a typical Republican proposal, doesn’t it?
dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/8/12517/55971/297/589573
Sasha
Hey, John, I told you awhile ago that BDS stood for Bullshit Doesn’t Stop.