Posted on 09/10/2008 7:46:49 PM PDT by Plutarch
ANCHORAGE — When Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska took center stage at the Republican convention last week, she sought to burnish her executive credentials by telling how she had engineered the deal that jump-started a long-delayed gas pipeline project.
Stretching more than 1,700 miles, it would deliver natural gas from the North Slope of Alaska to the lower 48 states and be the largest private-sector infrastructure project on the continent.
“And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence,” said Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee. “That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.”
The reality, however, is far more ambiguous than the impression Ms. Palin has left at the convention and on the campaign trail.
Certainly she proved effective in attracting developers to a project that has eluded Alaska governors for three decades. But an examination of the pipeline project also found that Ms. Palin has overstated both the progress that has been made and the certainty of success.
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GREAT!!! My grandkids will be able to buy gas without have to take out a loan for it!!! Thank you Sarah!!!! Sometimes it takes a woman to get the job done!
I guess its a good thing she got things going now, if its going to take so long, eh?
/sarcasm
Perhaps -— but the Democrat’s plan of doing NOTHING will not accomplish ANYTHING for centuries!
Mm Hmm. And Obama’s fix is expected to pay off ....when?
This has already been posted tonight.
Yeah, what's wrong? You just get a bunch of pipe, a bunch of guys, you hook the pipe together and its done.
I take Sarah’s gas snytime before Obambi’s hot air, uhm, aaah, as I said before, bla, blah, blahhhh...
Holy cow! Gov. Palin achieves agreement to build the pipeline in less than 20 months in office while others failed to do the same in 30 years and now the NY Times has the unmitigated gall to say it will take years to build and complete it. Sounds like the same argument they’ve used against drilling and the need for drilling.
And if Bubba had ok’d ANWR during his term instead of ok’ing Monica, we’d have a whole lot more oil now instead of having to listen to Bubba’s disgrace of a veep bleating.
Big deal. It is one day closer today than it was yesterday. Every trip.....
DRILL HERE - DRILL NOW!
Long-term solutions require long-term action and commitment.
The only thing the Slimes can do long-term is to die.
The NYT certainly do not have our best interests at heart. They are great at belittling good news. They can find a grey cloud on every sunny day.
A journey of 1,700 miles...
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Teddy Roosevelt
Yeah, well, the most ethical congress in the history of the world is a wayz away from being a reality and not a single member of the MSM is doubting Pelosi.
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