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“Congress and those in the White House choose to not allow us to develop our own God-given resources in the United States of America,” she said.<\/p>\n
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The substance of her energy argument isn’t all that interesting, because…<\/p>\n
The White House strongly supports nuclear energy. Last month President Obama announced<\/a> an $8.3 billion federal loan guarantee to build two new reactors in Georgia. What is interesting is that the call for energy independence from Palin sounds a lot like the calls for energy independence from renewables advocates (including veterans for clean energy<\/a>). From her speech on Saturday: “There is an inherent link between energy and prosperity, between energy and security, and between energy and freedom. We do need to drill here and drill now.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Half of that makes sense.<\/p>\n Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n Obama’s Oil Plan: Something For Nothing? Or Nothing For Something?<\/a><\/p>\n Energy Independence Through Greater Addiction<\/a><\/p>\n Scrounging for a green angle to the Large Hadron Collider experiment<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe potential<\/a> of offshore drilling has been widely debunked<\/a>—it’ll take 10 years to reach significant production levels and 20 years to reach peak production.
\nClean coal doesn’t exist<\/a>, except as a marketing ploy.<\/p>\n