Klondike Kardashian's latest Facebook fail is so stupid even Fox News cannot support her.

I was not going to address this at all because Palin's most recent Facebook attack on President Obama over gas prices is so completely bereft of factual information that it should be beneath the notice of anybody with half of a brain. However since so many media outlets seem determine to address this mooseshit I figured I should weigh in as well.

Palin's Facebook ghostwriters have apparently decided that Obama's so-called "anti-oil policies" have somehow contributed to the recent prices that we are all paying at the pump.

That is of course a specious argument and one easily cleared up by experts who actually know what they are talking about.  Like the ones Media Matters contacted to punch holes in Palin's ridiculous ghostwritten rant:

I recently asked several economists and energy experts if there was any truth to the claim that the Obama administration's drilling policies are responsible for the recent surge in gas prices. Not a single expert I consulted said that the claim is valid, including those aligned with the oil industry. Here's a sample of the responses I received:

• "Absolutely No Merit To This Viewpoint Whatsoever." Chris Lafakis, economist at Moody's Analytics and expert in energy markets, said: "I received your question about whether or not federal drilling policies are responsible for the current rise in gas prices. There is absolutely no merit to this viewpoint whatsoever. Near-term fluctuations in gasoline prices are determined by two primary factors: crude oil prices and seasonality. Since the deepwater drilling delay applies only to exploration and production, it would take years, maybe a decade to get any amount of crude oil out of the ground and into our gas tanks. In the meantime, global crude oil supply is exactly the same as it would have been if the government were giving away permits like candy."
• "It's Not Credible To Blame The Obama Administration's Drilling Policies For Today's High Prices." Michael Canes, research fellow at the Logistics Management Institute and former chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute disagrees with Obama's drilling policies. Still, he said: "It's not credible to blame the Obama Administration's drilling policies for today's high prices because of the relative scales involved." He further stated that "world oil prices are determined in a market of around 85 million barrels per day of production and consumption, while the consequences of domestic drilling, particularly in the Gulf, likely would be more in the range of several hundred thousand to one million barrels per day, and most of that production would not occur for a number of years."
• "Gasoline Prices At The Pump Would Be Higher Either Way." Lou Crandall, chief economist of Wrightson ICAP LLC said: "Higher oil prices today are a global phenomenon, and the additional supply from increased drilling by the U.S. would not alter the global balance of supply and demand greatly. Gasoline prices at the pump would be higher either way. The only difference is that a somewhat larger share of the revenue would accrue to domestic interests (governmental and private) rather than to foreign suppliers."

There we go.  Now isn't it better to hear from people who ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT on this subject?

In fact the argument was so...what's the right word here...oh yeah...retarded, that even Fox News simply could not go along with it.



(By the way Fox News is also incorrect with their assessment that if we reversed our domestic oil producing policies this minute, that it would have a real impact on gas prices in this country in the long term. It would not.)

Now here is my personal pet peeve.  One of the reasons that people keep responding to Palin when it comes to issues of energy or gas and oil issues is because they continue to buy into the myth that she is an "energy expert."  No, Goddammit she is not!

When Palin was tapped by Governor Murkowski to sit on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission it was just one of a number of jobs he offered her to get her to stop pouting about not getting his vacated Senate seat. (Something, by the way, that she is STILL pissed off about.)

However one of the very enlightening things that Frank Bailey pointed out in his manuscript is that on that commission there was a slot made available to one person who had no fucking idea what they were talking about, just to give the Alaska people the idea that even the dumbest among them were being represented.  That was the slot given to Palin.

The other so-called jewel in Palin's "energy expert" crown is the gas line project. The contract for which she promised TransCanada $500 million to bribe them into accepting, and which we now know is essentially doomed.

The facts are that Palin is about as much of an expert on energy as she is on telling the truth, which is not one damn bit.  Has everybody got that now?