Palin’s plan

As we’ve mentioned before, Sarah Palin is trying to assert herself on the political mainstage via her energy policy. We have no idea why, because her energy policy as it stands now is total gibberish, but she’s certainly determined; she recently gave a speech on the matter, blaming decades of presidential apathy for America’s current dependence on foreign oil. President Bush’s energy policy (such as it was) was not spared from Palin’s denouncement of executive inaction, which some people credit to an legit disagreement with the president. We think it’s more of a calculated, strategic move away from a man whose approval ratings are dropping low enough to cause frostbite, but we’re just bloggers, what do we know? Plus, we’re straying from the original topic, which is how terrible Palin’s energy ideas are.
Unfortunately, America’s favorite hockey mom is still trumpeting McCain’s clean coal and domestic oil drilling mantras, including a promise “that a McCain-Palin administration would commit $2 billion a year to develop clean-coal technology.” She also boasted of the progress she’s made towards securing a $40 billion natural gas pipeline in her home state, even though it’s “years away from federal approval and will not be built for at least a decade.” Not so impressive. Gary Coleman has laid more pipe than that.
And if Palin or McCain have touched on any other alternative energy sources, it’s been in passing (with the exception of nuclear power, something that McCain enthusiastically supports to the point where we think it arouses him sexually). Theirs is certainly not a pro-ethanol campaign, either. Sorry, Sarah; try again in 2012 when you’ve had time to actually study the issue.