Some things you may not know about Sarah Palin

Free Republic ^ | 10/18/09 | Dewie Whetsell,

[Terpfen]

..... It strikes me that the only thing Sarah Palin needs to win is (a) funding, and (b) an honest public media platform. But IMO she needs to start NOW putting that in place if she really wants to make a viable run in 2012.

Definitely. The best thing that could ever happen for her political aspirations is if a solid campaign director "defected" to her camp. She needs someone with connections who can piece together a trustworthy staff. Sort of the anti-Steve Schmidt.

[sybilll]

Thanks for making my day!

[b9]

Thought you might like this, SCP

[SoCalPol]

Thanks for the notice!
Looking for to reading Sarah’s book when it comes out next month.

[hiredhand]

Thanks!

[Wife of D28Man]

YES! BTTT

[publana]

Thank you for this article.

[American Dream 246]

How can you Back To The Top an article?

And you all, if you could email this to everybody you know, that would be nice. Thanks :-) We need to fight for her non stop.

[mickey finn]

BTTT

Hey Eska, I hope your cabin made it all right and your pet wolverine is doing well.

[editor-surveyor]

This has been around for almost a year!

[editor-surveyor]

"How can you Back To The Top an article?"

Put the cursor at the top of the vertical slider and hold the left button for about one second.

[American Dream 246]

This has been around for almost a year! __________________________________________________ So??? It's never enough to remind people who Sarah is. They don't mind to criticize her with 10 years old false stories again and again and again, right? So why should not we post and post again and re-post again the good things about Sarah? Romney is that you?

[American Dream 246]

Oh..ahah..thanks. I meant have an article going back up in the listings on FR. Bump?

Sometimes I think some articles are so important that they should go up again at the top - here is so many articles posted by the minutes - which is great of course - but sometime I am afraid a major one would not be read the day after.

But thanks for the reply :-)

[editor-surveyor]

Any post goes to the top anyway.

[editor-surveyor]

"Romney is that you?"

Are you that new here?

[rwrcpa1]

Finally, I would LOVE to see her energy-development approach applied to the US as a whole. Open up everything for drilling. After allowing for exploration and drilling costs, the energy firms pay the feds or the states (or both) a price per barrel equal to the going OPEC world price.

They pay a royalty to the govt., not the entire price of oil. Sometimes a private individual gets the royalty, because the government doesn't own everything (yet). Without profit there is no motive to participate. Also, have you ever heard of a dry hole? You don't just stick a straw in the ground anywhere and suck out oil. Some wells are great, some are stinkers, and some are dry.

I'm in the energy industry, and I support Sarah Palin.

[Senator John Blutarski]

rwrcpa1 wrote: “They pay a royalty to the govt., not the entire price of oil. Sometimes a private individual gets the royalty, because the government doesn’t own everything (yet). Without profit there is no motive to participate. Also, have you ever heard of a dry hole? You don’t just stick a straw in the ground anywhere and suck out oil. Some wells are great, some are stinkers, and some are dry.

I’m in the energy industry, and I support Sarah Palin.”

..... I understand your arguments and they make perfect sense. My thought however is that, since the US government owns gigantic tracts of territory in the US and controls offshore waters, they probably by inference control a large fraction of untapped US oil reserves. What’s the fair market value of that oil? For an oil company, I’m guessing it’s the OPEC market price minus the cost of exploration, extraction, and whatever infrastructure investments might be required (roads, pipelines, etc). Better that such money land in the coffers of any US government account than in the hands of Saudi Arabia or Venezuela. And it’s no secret that federal and state governments are in dire need of revenue.

[hattend]

BTTT

[rwrcpa1]

Yes, but you don’t pay that money before you find anything. And you have to give the oil companies leeway to profit, or they are just not going to do the deal. There is just too much risk. What you are proposing sounds just like the estate tax. “Oh, thank you so much for growing your business for us. We’re taking 45% of it.”

But I agree with you, we need to drill, baby, drill!

[Senator John Blutarski]

I agree that the oil companies should pay only for what comes out of the ground AND they should get allowances (discounts, tax credits, etc) to defray their exploration, development and extraction costs.