During last week's Vice Presidential debate Sarah Palin got global warming backwards. The next day, her first order of business was meeting with Texas oil man Republican operative T. Boone Pickens.
Since no members of the media were present, the only information we have comes from Pickens himself. Not the best source of information, but we'll take what we can get.
T. Boone's account of their meeting raises three questions.
This is rich.
Governor Palin comes from an energy state, and I'll tell you, she gets this energy situation. We talked about it like two oil and gas professionals.
As has been pointed out repeatedly, Sarah Palin does not "get" the energy situation. See this, this and this. Truth be told, she probably "gets" the energy situation about as well as Pickens himself gets global warming.
We spent some time talking about ANWR--the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We didn't agree on how much oil is up there, but I told her I was all for drilling. You know what I say about this: I'm for anything American.This should come as no surprise. Palin has been fudging the facts about Alaskan oil reserves and production since she was plucked out of thin air five weeks ago:
After FactCheck.org pointed out that Alaska is actually responsible for only 3.5 percent of the country's domestic energy production, Palin began re-phrasing her claim. But in an interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday McCain continued to repeat the debunked claim.Will she figure this one out, or continue repeating this lie?
And finally:
Her husband Todd sat in on the meeting. You know that he's a steelworker in the oil fields during the Alaskan summers, so he understands a good bit of this, too. He was interested in the concept of filling your vehicle in your garage overnight using the same gas line that goes to your kitchen range and hot water heater.
A lot of questions have been asked about Todd Palin's role in policy decisions. Why is Governor Palin's husband so involved in policy meetings on a subject she claims is her strongest? If Sarah Palin was such an energy expert with so many great ideas on the issue, wouldn't she have had a one on one meeting with Pickens, without the first dude getting in the way?
Here is the bottom line: If either T. Boone Pickens or Sarah Palin has a say in the future of our energy policy, we are in serious trouble.
Follow Josh Nelson on Twitter: www.twitter.com/enviroknow
Loading comments… 
I have been watching Boone's Pickens Plan campaign and I have seen it develop as a truly non-partis
I support T. Boone Pickens!!
hey man, go check out what is going on at the pickens site. Log into it and poke around. If you care about getting off oil, I would suggest you join and engage in the debate. If you know anything about Global Warming, Peak oil, Solar power, any alternativ
Really, become part of the solution.
dan
I would recommend that you check out the Pickens site and look around at the community. We are a very large, over 170,000 strong, group of non-partis
The Pickens Plan is sound, move us onto an electric economy and use a cleaner source of fuel for some purposes, like automobile
dan
In doing so you have stood up for stagnation
You fail to mention that Mr. Pickens plan is bi-partisa
We need to reach out to every candidate on this issue however, regardless of our political feelings, or you know what you will get in the end.
A bunch of disgruntle
I can't warm up to Obama
Obama did not pick Hilary (or i would be voting democrat)
I love Palin's Grit
McCain truly wants to serve his country
BOONE PICKENS IS A DYNAMITE GUY! HE'S GOT MY VOTE TOO...
(remember when you take all this too seriously you're missing out on the fun!!!!!!! this is one country we don't get imprisoned or executed for having an opinion...
Don't get hung up on Pickens and his "agenda" - he's just responding with his opinion - not with any action (or money) behind every answer he gives. "I support all things American" is just short hand for "I don't care what you do to help our country, just get out there and do it." He's meeting with every high level politician to make sure they do something about foreign oil. Will it matter if the McCain/Pal
The question is, what are "YOU" going to do about our energy crisis? Care about swiftboats
Say hi when you get there.
Clynton
"I can't warm up to Obama" : Translatio
"Obama did not pick Hilary (or I would be voting democrat)"
"I love Palin's Grit" : Translatio
"McCain truly wants to serve his country" : Translatio
"BOONE PICKENS IS A DYNAMITE GUY! HE'S GOT MY VOTE TOO...": Translatio
May I suggest that you reconsider your decision, I mean, it SHOULD be a LOT easier to "warm up" with a HANDSOME, HEALTHY, YOUNG, ENERGETIC, EMPATHETIC AND INTELLIGEN
As far as Sarah Palin's "Grit"...H
Peace....V
Carol
You speak as one who knows Boone personally
The inference that Todd Palin's presence at the meeting must mean that Gov. Palin is not an energy expert is a non sequitur, or logical fallacy that your conclusion does not follow from your premise.
The hostility toward Mr. Pickens is unexplaine
God bless the Pickens Plan, God bless this man devoting his own time and resources to a nonpartisa
(60 vote rule/veto.
Home prices were inflated by wall street robber barons, interest rates lowered, loan applicatio
By bundling/s
A strong economy is a large well paid middle class with money to spend, not a feudal system of Nobles and peasants.
McCain is trying to portray himself as a populist, his handlers recognize citizens demand a reversal of Reagan - Bush II raid of American paychecks.
McCain is a populist like Hefner is a virgin.
A healthy economy is a pyramid, broad at the base, narrow at the top. When greed, influence, and legalized crime reverse this pyridine, society fails. This truth has been accomplish
The American work force has achieved the greatest productivi
Billions taken by Halliburto
Put aside battle lines,do something for the people instead of the privileged
Home prices were also inflated when people derived the value of their home from the guess of a real estate agent rather than a qualified appraiser. There is a fundamenta
If you've ever seen a home improvemen
First, higher prices mean the agent makes a bigger commission and the seller makes more money, so both parties have incentive to go high. The actual value added to something is the value of materials and labor used. That's it.
Second, the value of one property is based on the land and the improvemen
He's not in it to make us energy independen
Same accounts for Fuel Cell cars. Also not a solution. No infrastruc
So Pickens plan is extremely short sighted and only serves one purpose: making profit.
All she knows is those oil companies and the taxes she extracts from them give her political clout; you betchya.