Over the past couple of days, both John McCain and Sarah Palin have asserted that Palin knows a lot about energy, especially as it is related to national security issues, because she is governor of Alaska which "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy."
McCain has repeated this claim. Apparently, they have been using it for at least a week. It is going to be one of their talking points. It is a lie.
The original factcheck on this comes from this post over at TPM: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsme... It's not my insight, but it needs to be passed around as much as possible until the MSM is keyed in.
Wark, the original poster at TPM links to an Energy Information Agency report on Alaska which indicates that Alaska produces 3.5% of the US energy supply, NOT the 20% claimed by McCain/Palin. Alaska does, however, hold 18.5% of US oil reserves. That seems to be the "nearly 20%" that Palin is talking about.
To be explicit, they are intentionally conflating the term "energy" with "oil." This should call into question not only Palin's suppposed expertise about energy, but her and McCain's future policies. This statement strongly indicates that their policies will be oil centric.
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