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Palin Perfect on Energy: 'Drill, Drill, Drill'

Posted Sep 3, 08 12:20 PM CDT in Opinion,  Politics 

(Newser) – Sarah Palin’s Alaska experience gives her just the right expertise for a year when the price of gasoline is going to be the hot-button issue, writes Larry Kudlow in National Review. Her energy policy? “I call it drill, drill, drill,” says Kudlow approvingly. "Our abundant country can produce more energy at lower cost if government gets out of the way."

Kudlow sees Palin as a very powerful weapon for John McCain, who she had the nerve to say was wrong to oppose drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The US needs politicians who will exploit our billions of barrels of untouched oil, argues Kudlow, and get our future growth out of the hands of our enemies. "Well, get ready for Sarah America to take on the fight against all comers," he writes, calling her position "a full-throated America-first energy policy that will create millions of high-paying jobs with complete government deregulation and decontrol of the full menu of energy sources."

Source National Review

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, vice chair of the National Governors Association Natural Resources Committee, during the meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, talks to reporters after touring the Chevron Genesis Oil Rig Platform in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008.   (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In a Aug. 29, 2008 file photo Alaska Gov Sarah Palin greets the crowd after appearing onstage during the 'Road to the Convention Rally' at the Erwin J. Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio. Before she was...   (AP Photo)
Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov., Sarah Palin, shakes hands with supporters at the conclusion of a campaign unity rally in O'Fallon, Mo., Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008.   (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, arrives on a chartered plane with Cindy McCain, wife of presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for the Republican...   (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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I call it drill, drill, drill. But in fact it’s a full-throated America-first energy policy that will create millions of high-paying jobs with complete government deregulation of the full menu of energy sources.

Obama is way off-base on all that. I think those politicians who don’t understand that we need more domestic supply of energy flowing into our hungry markets [are] living in la-la land. - Sarah Palin

This is the energy election. And Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has the energy answer: Our abundant country can produce more energy at lower cost if government gets out of the way.

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