[Vision2020] Palin wrongly suggests Congress bans oil exports

[No Weatherman]

Dave:

Not only have I NOT attacked the messenger, I asked two very specific
questions designed to elicit a response from the messenger. I asked
them because her posts are scattershot and she refuses to address
their content.

You, however, have attacked me with a baseless accusation,
demonstrating your point better than anything I could have written.

Therefore, for the record, I will repeat my original assessment of you
which I made after you called Gov Palin a "Christian terrorist."

YOU ARE A BLITHERING IDIOT.



On 10/27/08, Dave <tiedye at turbonet.com> wrote:
> Hey No Clue
>
>  That's so nice, and so typical of your ilk.  You don't like the message
>  so you attack the messenger.
>
>  Dave
>
>
>
>  No Weatherman wrote:
>  > Ms. Lund:
>  >
>  > Respectfully, do you even have a modicum of knowledge about any one of
>  > the subjects you post on?
>  >
>  > Do you even have a clue?
>  >
>  >
>  > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Saundra Lund <sslund_2007 at verizon.net> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Palin wrongly suggests Congress bans oil exports
>  >> By H. JOSEF HEBERT
>  >> Associated Press Writer
>  >> Published: Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008
>  >>
>  >> WASHINGTON -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, touted by GOP presidential candidate
>  >> John McCain as his expert on energy, seemed to have problems Thursday
>  >> explaining whether the government bans oil exports - especially from her
>  >> state's North Slope fields.
>  >>
>  >> A questioner at a town hall-style meeting in Wisconsin said he had heard
>  >> that at least 75 percent of the oil drilled in Alaska was being sold to
>  >> China and said, if true, he would like to know why.
>  >>
>  >> "No. It's not 75 percent of our oil being exported," Palin said, suggesting
>  >> some of Alaska's oil, in fact, may be going abroad but not that much.
>  >>
>  >> "In fact," she added, "Congress is pretty strict on, um, export bans of oil
>  >> and gas especially."
>  >>
>  >> No Alaska oil has been exported since 2004, and little if any since 2000,
>  >> according to the Energy Information Administration and the Congressional
>  >> Research Service.
>  >>
>  >> And Congress has never imposed outright bans on oil exports. Congress
>  >> prohibited exports of Alaska oil in 1973 when the Alaska oil pipeline was
>  >> built. But that ban was lifted in 1996 when there were large volumes of
>  >> Alaska oil coming down from the North Slope and U.S. demand was soft.
>  >>
>  >> The Alaska ban has never been reinstated.
>  >>
>  >> "It's been discussed recently as part of talk about drilling on the Outer
>  >> Continental Shelf," said Bill Wicker, a spokesman for the Senate Energy and
>  >> Natural Resources Committee. But he said there's been no active legislation
>  >> that would reinstate the Alaska ban or any thought on Capitol Hill of
>  >> banning other U.S. oil or natural gas exports.
>  >>
>  >> Natural gas exports must be approved by the Energy Department under a 1938
>  >> law, although such authorization for gas shipments to Mexico, Canada and
>  >> Japan have been granted for many years. The Energy Department recently
>  >> indicated it is ready to renew authorization for shipping Alaska liquefied
>  >> natural gas, or LNG, to Japan.
>  >>
>  >> There are no such restrictions when it comes to oil.
>  >>
>  >> Between 1996 and 2004, about 95 million barrels of North Slope oil, roughly
>  >> 2.7 percent of Alaska's production, was exported to South Korea, Japan,
>  >> China and Taiwan, according to the Energy Information Administration.
>  >>
>  >> There have been little or no oil exports since 2000, according to the
>  >> Congressional Research Service. The EIA said there have been no Alaska oil
>  >> exports since 2004.
>  >>
>  >> The United States exports a relatively small amount of oil and petroleum
>  >> production as Palin acknowledged as part of her answer, which largely
>  >> focused on the need for more domestic drilling.
>  >>
>  >> "It's not a huge portion of any domestic supply being exported," Palin said
>  >> toward the end of her response, and seemed to contradict her earlier view
>  >> that Congress bans exports.
>  >>
>  >> Last year, the United States exported 523 million barrels of petroleum
>  >> products, of which only a small amount was crude oil. That year it imported
>  >> more than 4.7 billion barrels of oil and oil products.
>  >>
>  >> The United States exported 822 billion cubic feet of natural gas, almost all
>  >> by pipeline to Canada and Mexico, and a small amount of liquefied natural
>  >> gas, or LNG, to Japan and Mexico in 2007, according to the EIA.
>  >>
>  >> http://www.sacbee.com/839/story/1302427.html
>  >>
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