Palin is not an energy expert. I am sorry, but having knowledge about drilling for oil and gas in Alaska is not sufficient.
Here is an important post by Joseph Romm: "Pork queen Palin is an earmark expert, NOT energy expert".
And her shill Maria Bartoromo inflates the myth again.
But it is outrageous for CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo to say on Meet the Press, "I think the biggest value she brings to the ticket is her expertise in energy." What Palin is primarily knowledgeable about is drilling for oil in Alaska, which, of course, Senator McCain opposes — so she is "expert" in the one area that is utterly irrelevant for a McCain administration. But the larger point for the media is that she is knowledgeable on only one small and largely irrelevant subset (Alaska) of two types of energy (oil and gas).
And then , of course, 'energy expert' Palin repeated the industry lie (to who else, of course, Maria Bartoromo) that drilling in 1,500,000 acres of the Arctic National Wildife refuge would only impact 2,000 acres.
This is a lie - see for yourself.
Drilling for oil in Alaska does not make an energy policy. And knowledge of drilling in Alaska does not make one an energy expert.
ATTACK THIS ASSERTION AT EVERY CHANCE!