The Many Lies Of Sarah Palin

Is there anything that Sarah Palin won't lie about? It looks like we'll have to fact check everything she says. If someone finds something truthful, please let me know. At this point, I'm beginning to doubt her name is Sarah Palin.

During the Charlie Gibson interview Palin said (and I think I heard this claim before from Palin as well as McCain) that Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the US domestic supply of energy." I thought this to be a strange statistic. And the operative word is "energy." Was she talking about all energy? Or did she mean to say oil? Surely she couldn't have meant all energy because that would include coal, "nookular," hydro, etc., so I thought it was odd, but I didn't think to check it out because everyone was still groggy from the Bush Doctrine slap to the back of the head.

Well, thank Jebus for FactCheck.org. Sarah Palin, if that is your real name, we surveyed 100 people and asked them what percentage of US energy does Alaska produce yearly, and you said "nearly 20 percent." Survey says? BZZZZZT!!!

It's simply untrue that Alaska produces anything close to 20 percent of the U.S. "energy supply," a term that is generally defined as energy consumed...
Palin would have been correct to say that Alaska produces just over 14 percent of all the oil produced in the U.S., leaving out imports and leaving out other forms of power...
...But Alaskan production accounts for only 4.8 percent of all the crude oil and petroleum products supplied to the U.S. in 2007, counting both domestic production and imports from other nations...
Furthermore, Palin said "energy," not "oil," so she was actually much further off the mark. According to EIA, Alaska actually produced 2,417.1 trillion BTUs [British Thermal Units] of energy in 2005, the last year for which full state numbers are available. That's equal to just 3.5 percent of the country's domestic energy production. And according to EIA analyst Paul Hess, that would calculate to only "2.4 percent of the 100,368.6 trillion BTUs the U.S. consumes." Palin didn't make clear whether she was talking about Alaska's share of all the energy produced in the U.S. or all the energy consumed here. Either way, she was wrong.

So what do you think? I'm going to assume that her supposed children are just paid actors posing as her family to promote the "hockey mom" meme. Go ahead, prove me wrong.