Palin is for Alaskan oil, not renewables.
Palin does not speak for the country as a whole. She speaks for Alaska and oil. We need vision right now, not the limited focus of the drill.
This concludes a comment in The Nation by Michael T. Clare.
Finally, much like the leaders of other petrostates that depend on oil sales to fill government coffers, Palin is leery of efforts to promote renewable sources of energy and other petroleum alternatives--the exact opposite of running mate John McCain's proclaimed objective and that of most members of Congress. At a meeting of the National Governors Association in February, Palin argued against providing subsidies for alternative energy sources, claiming that domestic sources of oil and gas--many located in Alaska--can satisfy the nation's needs for a long time to come. "The conventional resources we have can fill the gap between now and when new technologies become economically competitive and don't require subsidies," she asserted. When pressed by a reporter for Oil & Gas Journal she went further, denouncing government support for renewable energy. "I just don't want things to get out of hand with incentives for renewables, particularly since they imply subsidies, while ignoring fuels we already have on hand." Surely, at this moment in history--with global oil output facing imminent decline and global warming an inescapable reality--anyone opposed to government support of renewable energy should be considered stupendously ill equipped for national office.