Forget Sarah Palin, if you really want a leader who knows about energy in this country he is currrently residing in the White House.

Courtesy of Politico:

 A federal report released Wednesday offers the latest indication that U.S. energy production will continue to boom in the coming decades amid surging production from shale while imports plummet and gasoline consumption falls below previous estimates. 

The Energy Information Administration, in a summary of its 2013 Annual Energy Outlook, said domestic energy production will grow more quickly than consumption through 2040. And imports will fall from 19 percent of total U.S. energy consumption in 2011 to 9 percent in 2040.

The EIA also lowered its projections for gasoline consumption when compared with last year’s report, pointing to the Obama administration’s beefed-up fuel economy standards. Thanks to those standards, gasoline consumption in the transportation sector will fall by 0.5 million barrels per day in 2025 and by 1 million barrels per day in 2035 compared with last year’s projections. 

Renewables will also see an expansion in the coming decades, EIA says. It projects the share of generation from renewables will increase from 13 percent in 2011 to 16 percent in 2040. But the report says the agency is “less optimistic” about “the ability of advanced biofuels to capture a rapidly growing share of the liquid fuels market.” 

And this my friends is how you move America toward energy independence.

Somebody should go up to that Wasilla Wendigo and tell her to take her "Drill baby, drill" nonsense and put it where the sun don't shine and her husband now refuses to touch her.

Strong on defense, strong on energy, strong on tax cuts for the middle class, exactly what DO the Republicans still have in their political quiver these days? If they go with conservative social issues they will only continue to make themselves irrelevant.

So of course I think they should go with that!