What? Do you understand Palin’s creds with energy? How she fought Big Oil in her state and won?
What are you doing posting this kind of ridiculous slam on Palin on FR?
(Not you RoosterR ... just sort of cc’ing you on this)
Sarah is a lot like Trump.EXCEPT SOCIAL ISSUES
Sarah takes on Big Oil: The compelling story of Governor Sarah Palin’s battle with Alaska’s ‘Big 3’ oil companies, as told by the state’s top oil and gas editors, Kay Cashman and Kristen Nelson Hardcover – October 17, 2008
by Kay Cashman (Author), Kristen Nelson (Author)
When I read the other reviewers’ comments that this book was a unbiased reporting of what Sarah had done, I wanted to read it. This book clearly addresses and identifies the corruption in the Alaskan Government and the oil industry before Sarah became Governor. Sarah was the reformer that helped stop this abuse as she fought for the Alaskan people.
While the mainstream media continually tries to portray her as “stupid,” this book shows you the intelligence and guts she had to take on some of the most powerful people in Alaskan Government and BP, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil. She accomplished a lot in the short time she was Governor.
Since the book is about “Big Oil,” there is a lot of information on oil and oil production. While I wasn’t that interested in the oil information, I knew I needed to read it so I could understand the challenge Sarah took on to end the corruption. The previous administration fired people who would not look the other way and allow the corruption to go on. Others “ethical” officials resigned their offices over these firings. They are referred to by the Alaskan people and the authors of the book as “The Magnificent Seven.” Sarah hired most, if not all, back after she was elected.
The book went to press late last year(2008), before the almost year long smear campaign of the mainstream media had taken its toll. Near the end of the book, Stefan Milkowski, a freelance reporter living in Fairbanks who writes about climate change and energy issues makes this statement about what he predicts would happen when Sarah returns home. “It’s kind of like somebody going to the big leagues and then coming back home,” he said. “She wouldn’t suffer.” Unfortunately, he didn’t realize the maliciousness of the “big league” press, and others who see Sarah as standing in the way of their own personal or political gain
I do. I was working in engineering design in Alaska for the Alaskan North Slope oil facilities when she ran for governor.
She ran on, and put in place, a massive, retroactive tax increase on oil production.
The result was a extreme drop in investment in Alaska. Planned projects were put on hold. Many jobs were lossed. My engineering department dropped to about a third in about a year; 50% and greater job losses were typical for most companies that worked on engineering and design for future projects.
While the rest of the country started booming with new oil production, Alaska greatly lagged. Jobs grew in the lower 48 while Alaska continued at a much slower pace.