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Title: Fact Check: Palin on Energy
Post by: 240 is Back on September 13, 2008, 09:42:23 PM
September 12, 2008
Palin says Alaska supplies 20 percent of U.S. energy. Not true. Not even close.

Summary
Palin claims Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." That's not true.

Alaska did produce 14 percent of all the oil from U.S. wells last year, but that's a far cry from all the "energy" produced in the U.S.

Alaska's share of domestic energy production was 3.5 percent, according to the official figures kept by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

And if by "supply" Palin meant all the energy consumed in the U.S., and not just produced here, then Alaska's production accounted for only 2.4 percent.
Title: Re: Fact Check: Palin on Energy
Post by: calmus on September 13, 2008, 09:45:29 PM
You know you're on the path to truth when you smell shit, ain't that right sergeant? ...