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Energy Fact Checks - The Alaskan Hockey Mom Fortune Teller Strikes Again

Written by: Eric Weis on Sep 15, 2008 12:44 AM EDT

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Lost in all the reporting, I hope you caught this tidbit over the weekend.

During the ABC interview, Sarah Palin claimed that Alaska produces 20% of all home grown American energy.

Factcheck.org places this figure as low as 3.5%. Since I don't trust much of anything I read in the papers, I decided to go to an industry trade group, the American Petroleum Institute (API).  I know about API since I used to sell process equipment into that industry.  I know a fluid cat cracker from a fractionating column.

API data for August 2008 puts the Alaska production figure at 13%.  Alaska delivered 665,000 bbl per day compared to total US output of 5.1 million bpd.  In the same period, we imported 13.5 Mbpd, equal to 67% of total oil products delivered.  Here is the link:

http://www.api.org/Newsroom/upload/08_August_Petroleum_Facts_at_a_Glance.pdf

So, 20% vs 13%.  What's a percent here and there?  But I wonder - shouldn't the governor of a major oil producing state have these basic facts down cold?  The day before the interview, John McCain said that she "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America."  Oh really?

I suppose that it is possible, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, that Alaska will be providing more of domestic energy needs.  Hmmmm...are we dealing with someone who is clairvoyant here?  Let's give Sarah a deck of Tarot cards and see what happens.  Surely an excellent qualification for Vice President; if she really can tell the future, we will be able to downsize or maybe even eliminate the CIA and save real money.

So let's ask Sarah where to drill.  She must be able to predict where the biggest gushers will come on line.  That kind of future-telling PALES in comparison to predicting the effects of an entire hurricane.  And you thought the X-Files was a stretch. Just wait for Sarah to arrive in Washington DC.  Maybe she will be able to find all those missing WMDs. Let's not forget to get her on the case of bin Laden.  He won't stand a chance.

- ArcticEric

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