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Gov. Sarah Palin unveiled her energy plan for the state Friday, calling for 50 percent of Alaska’s electricity to come from renewable energy by 2025.

And in case you are wondering about ANWR and “Drill, baby, drill” Please read the press release below from Governor Sarah Palin.

Governor Issues Statement on ANWR Legislation

January 14, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin today issued the following statement after members of Congress introduced a bill to permanently prohibit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:

“I am dismayed that legislation has again been introduced in Congress to prohibit forever oil and gas development in the most promising unexplored petroleum province in North America – the coastal plain of ANWR, in Alaska.

“Let’s not forget: Only six months ago, oil was selling for nearly $150 per barrel, while Americans were paying $4 a gallon and more for gasoline. And today, there is potential for prices to rebound as OPEC asserts its market power, and as Russia is disrupting needed natural gas to Europe, for the second time in three years.

“As I traveled throughout the country campaigning for vice president, I was glad to hear politicians, including President-elect Barack Obama, promise ‘everything was on the table’ to address America’s great challenges. I also found that when Americans were apprised of the facts, most people became supporters of responsible oil and gas drilling in Alaska. So, I want to remind our national leaders of this promise, and to make the case against this legislation that would permanently take off the table any consideration of responsible ANWR drilling.”

The governor made the following points:

* Oil from ANWR represents a huge, secure domestic supply that could help satisfy U.S. demand for more than 25 years.

* ANWR sits within a 20 million acre refuge (the size of South Carolina) but thanks to advanced technology like directional drilling, the aggregated drilling footprint would be less than 2,000 acres (about one-quarter the size of Dulles Airport). This is like laying a two-by-three-foot welcome mat on a basketball court.

* Energy development is quite compatible with the protection of our wildlife and their habitat. For example, North Slope caribou herds have grown and remained healthy throughout more than three decades of our oil development. Most of the year, our coastal plain is frozen solid and thus characterized by low biological productivity.

* ANWR development would create hundreds of thousands of good American jobs, positively affecting every state by providing a safe energy supply and generating demand for goods and services.

* Development here would reduce U.S. dependence on unstable, dangerous sources of energy such as the Middle East, and would decrease our huge trade deficit, a large percentage of which is directly attributable to oil imports.

* Incremental ANWR production would help reduce energy price volatility. Previous price disruptions demonstrate how even relatively low levels of oil production influence world prices.

* Federal revenues from ANWR – cash bids, leases, and oil taxes – would help reduce the multi-trillion dollar national debt, and we’d circulate U.S. petrodollars in our own country instead of continuing to send hundreds of billions of our dollars overseas, creating jobs and stronger economies in other countries.

The governor went on to say:

“The development of oil and clean-burning natural gas isn’t a panacea. However, this development should be authorized in comprehensive legislation that includes alternative fuels, fuel efficiency, and conservation.

“Americans know that gasoline and other refined crude oil products will keep fueling our transportation system for the foreseeable future. Further, the soaring prices of food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and other products illustrate the importance of petroleum to the health and well-being of America.

“Another important reality is that the location and quantity of oil production are drastically changing world geopolitics. Energy-producing countries are rapidly gaining world power. Several of these countries have objectives and value systems that are antithetical to U.S. interests.

“Washington politicians should be horrified as we become increasingly dependent on these insecure, foreign sources while our U.S. petrodollars finance activities that harm America and our economic and military interests around the world.

“If we don’t move now to enact a comprehensive energy policy that includes domestic oil and gas production – including ANWR – we will look back someday and regret that we failed to perceive a critical crossroads in the history of America. It’s not overly dramatic to say our nation’s future depends on the decisions made by the federal government over the next few months.

“Polls show a majority of Americans now support responsible energy development in Alaska. Unfortunately, some disingenuous special interest groups are still fighting the public will in Congress.

“Americans, please contact Congress and ask that all options stay on the table as we formulate our needed energy plan. Remind politicians about their promises to increase domestic oil and gas production.”

To: STATE EDITORS

Contact: Mike Carey, president, Ohio Coal Association, +1-614-228-6336, (office), +1-614-264-1694, (mobile)

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire–USNewswire/ — Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association (OCA), today issued the following statement in response to just-released remarks from Senator Barack Obama about the nation’s coal industry.

“Regardless of the timing or method of the release of these remarks, the message from the Democratic candidate for President could not be clearer: the Obama-Biden ticket spells disaster for America’s coal industry and the tens of thousands of Americans who work in it.

“These undisputed, audio-taped remarks, which include comments from Senator Obama like ‘I haven’t been some coal booster’ and ‘if they want to build [coal plants], they can, but it will bankrupt them’ are extraordinarily misguided.

“It’s evident that this campaign has been pandering in states like Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and Pennsylvania to attempt to generate votes from coal supporters, while keeping his true agenda hidden from the state’s voters.

“Senator Obama has revealed himself to be nothing more than a short- sighted, inexperienced politician willing to say anything to get a vote. But today, the nation’s coal industry and those who support it have a better understanding of his true mission, to ‘bankrupt’ our industry, put tens of thousands out of work and cause unprecedented increases in electricity prices.

“In addition to providing an affordable, reliable source of low-cost electricity, domestic coal holds the key to our nation’s long-term energy security – a goal that cannot be overlooked during this time of international instability and economic uncertainty.

“Few policy areas are more important to our economic future than energy issues. As voters head to the polls tomorrow, it is essential they remember that access to reliable, affordable, domestic energy supplies is essential to economic growth and stability.”

The Ohio Coal Association (OCA) is a non-profit trade association representing the interests of Ohio’s underground and surface coal mining producers. The OCA represents nearly 40 coal producing companies and more than 50 Associate Members, which include suppliers and consultants to the mining industry, coal sales agents and brokers and allied industries. The Ohio Coal Association is committed to advancing the development and utilization of Ohio coal as an abundant, economic and environmentally sound energy source.

SOURCE Ohio Coal Association

For the full story on this visit:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/02/obama-ill-make-energy-prices-skyrocket/
where you will find an article and audio of Obama talking about energy prices and bankrupting any new coal plants! Coal supplies 49% of our energy in the USA.!

Energy prices skyrocketing will leave the economy in tatters, as we saw earlier this year.

If you already think your energy bills are too much this will shock you!

Please pass this information on to everyone you know!

Gov. Sarah Palin is passionate about energy and oil. To put it in simple terms, oil is an enormous factor in our economy. We are paying more at the pump and that translates into paying more for groceries and any other item we buy because fuel must be used to transport these things.

Gov. Palin recognizes the need for us to be energy independent of other nations, not depending on other countries for our energy needs, lowers the prices at the pump and also if we are using American resources we will be putting our American dollars back into our U.S. economy, buying domestically will stimulate the economy and it will create jobs here at home. Palin understands that and is determined to make a difference both with domestic drilling and alternative fuels.

*In the first half of 2008 we spent 172 billion dollars on foreign oil. Read more about that here.

In my opinion, Charlie Gibson, not taking Gov. Sarah Palin serious when she says that energy does have to do with forgien affairs, is a joke.

I don’t think most of us can wrap our minds around what energy (oil) actually means to us. If heaven forbid we were cut off from our supplies, life as we know it would cease to exist, at this point in time.

While Charlie Gibson, mocks that, and pigs & lipstick are at the top of the news, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has told our US ambassador to leave his country and Russia delivered a bomber plane to Chavez.

Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves outside the Middle East and despite Chavez’s clashes with the Bush administration, is a major supplier to the United States, which is its biggest customer. – Yahoo News

Imagine, no oil, you are not going anywhere! No Walmart, no soccer or hockey games, no anything. Well, not true but you’d be walking or riding a bike.

This one reason should be a huge deciding factor when you are voting. Gov. Sarah Palin has the vision to make sure this country is independent of other countries that don’t exactly want the best for our country. Not just with drilling but with other alternative methods, as well.