Palin to play ball with Big Oil

[maddezmom]

Source: CNNMoney

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Sarah Palin gets a lot of credit for standing up to Big Oil in Alaska, but if she and John McCain win the White House, don't expect some of her more populist policies to survive the move to Washington.

In her two years as Alaska's governor, Palin is credited with being tough on big oil, to the benefits of her constituents and bucking her own party.

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But analysts - and the McCain campaign itself - are quick to note that Palin will toe the line on the energy policies of her potential boss, who unlike Barack Obama does not favor a windfall profits tax.

Christopher Ruppel, an energy analyst at Execution LLC, a broker and research firm for institutional investors like hedge and mutual funds is more concerned with McCain's energy policy than Palin's past spats with the oil industry. "We don't think she will represent a big change from that."

The McCain campaign, which speaks for Palin, confirmed that stance.

"'The governor supports the campaign's positions," said Doug Holtz-Eakin, a McCain senior advisor.





Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/02/news/economy/palin_oil/?postversion=2008100215

[bjobotts]

1. Undeserved credit...she made deals with big oil then pushes for drilling in ALASKA reserves

[bjobotts]

2. The word is bribed...oil bribed her for drilling rights etc.

[not fooled]

3. Her goobernatorial inogerashun was sponsored by BP

& the Toddster is on BP's payroll

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2008/09/30014.php

draw your own conclusions :eyes:

[arizonamarc]

4. Palin is Big Oil

She discouraged development and exploration in Aaska by accident, by taxing the oil companies so high that they found better economic environments for exploration dollar. The result is good for the environment, but it is a failure of her policy. The results look good because oil went up so high in the last year. Alaska makes more money per barrel than any oil company in Alaska. Make no mistake, she is big oil and doesn't give a shit about the lower 48, or the earth. This is greed plain and simple. She knows that the relatively small amount of oil we may get from AK in the next 20 years is not the solution or even 10% of the solution but it will bring lots of money to the state and she can continue to pay off the citizens of Venezuela - I mean Alaska to approve of her. Thanks but no thanks to your energy policy idiot. You have done nothing but apply upward pressure to the price of oil like everyone else who has something to gain by doing so.

[goforit]

5. And as VP she'll sleep and do favors with them.

[Kurovski]

6. When you consider that Big Oil has desired to drill in Alaska for what? 2 decades?

It becomes clear that Palin "is their gal".

Edit. I spelled the idiots name wrong. :rofl:

[Haole Girl]

7. Palin gets a little too excited when talking about drilling ANWR

I swear, sometimes, I can see the dollar signs in her eyes.

:scared: