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Palin, October 2, 2008, vice-presidential debate: "The chant is 'drill, baby, drill.' And that's what we hear all across this country in our rallies because peo
by adriand 17y ago
Palin, October 2, 2008, vice-presidential debate: "The chant is 'drill, baby, drill.' And that's what we hear all across this country in our rallies because people are so hungry for those domestic sources of energy to be tapped into."
- RevRal 17y agoPalin 2010: [Now that the oil is about to line your shores], I'll pray for you. http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/13132651183 http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/13132651183
- DrSprout 17y ago>All industry efforts must b employed I'm honestly not sure whether she's just talking about cleanup or about further drilling.
- spamizbad 17y agoWhat's depressing about this isn't the populist outrage about our lack of drilling: it's the fact that Americans are so ignorant of their own energy consumption they believe we can somehow drill out way out of high gas prices (which are already very low compared to other places).
- roboneal 17y agoOur "gas prices" are essentially the same as anywhere else. It's our "gas taxes" which are lower.
- pinko 17y agoActual comment from a fan on Palin's Facebook page: Beth Hartman: From what I hear the earth takes care of it's own natural substances and oil is from the earth. The chemicals to clean up are more harmful. Ecology takes care of itself. An example, a forest fire. In fact, it recreates better.
- tptacek 17y agoWhy are you reading the commenters on Sarah Palin's Facebook page? Don't you know that's bad for you?
- jacquesm 17y agoIt's scary that voting is a right that comes by just having a certain age.
- TNO 17y agoWe all know that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
- thwarted 17y agoI think this is a misrepresentation of the actual results. Human efforts to clean up underminded the natural bacteria and fungi that consume oil. But it's still a huge, massive mess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill What I find interesting about this is this bit: Despite the extensive cleanup attempts, a study conducted by NOAA determined that as of early 2007 more than 26 thousand U.S. gallons (22,000 imp gal; 98,000 L) of oil remain in the sandy soil of the contaminated shoreline, declining at a rate of less than 4% per year. That it's even measurable as percentage per year seems like it's getting better, by both human and natural means, at a rate faster than if left to its own devices (with my lay understanding, we'd be talking geologic or evolutionary timescales here, right?). Huge messes take a lot of effort and time to clean up.
- TNO 17y agoSo a commenter is ignorant, therefore the owner of the page the comment is on is also ignorant. Nice logic there bud.
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- TNO 17y agoWhat does Palin have anything to do with it? She's not in charge of policy.