It's also worth considering whether Palin's pipeline proposal would, as she frequently claims, "Help lead America to energy independence."
It would be constructed by a Canadian company and run through Canada. Critics of the plan in Alaska have seized on this, framing it as an issue of state and national pride.
CQ Politics also exposed that Palin's Pipeline was all about putting Alaska First""and Canada second! If built as planned, Palin's Pipeline would terminate in Alberta, Canada to feed the boundless energy requirements to extra oil from the tars sands""little, if any, of the gas would ever get to the Lower 48. The United States of America is seen as a chump, an "easy mark" to fund the project. It is a dirty little secret of Palin's Pipeline that it depends upon US taxpayers putting up the money while others get the gas and industry keeps the profits. This is a core fact about Palin's Pipeline that has had very little exposure. More people should be talking about it and asking her about it (if she ever takes any questions).
As it is, McCain and Palin just keep hyping the pipeline and Palin's energy experience. Each time they tell the tale it gets a wee bit taller.
CQ's PolitiFacts found that their claims about the cost and certainty of the pipeline were Barely True (emphasis added):
There is no agreement to build, and it's not $40-billion
In her early campaign appearances, Gov. Sarah Palin has repeatedly boasted about her role in advocating a new natural gas pipeline in Alaska. [snip]
Palin's accomplishment sounds impressive in her words -- far more than it actually is. The agreement she reached -- with the help of the Alaska State Legislature -- is not a commitment to build, but rather a commitment to begin planning the massive project. Palin's claim suggests that construction is assured, but that's just not true. And if it were, it wouldn't be a $40-billion pipeline. Those are two significant flaws in this claim Palin makes repeatedly.
Still, there is a new agreement that was forged with Palin as governor, so we rate her boast as Barely True.
And CQ rated the McCain/Palin claims about the cost of the pipeline and Palin's role in getting it done as an example of her "energy experience" as being Half True: Not quite the largest, and not quite "brought about" (emphasis added):
Since Sen. John McCain named Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin his vice-presidential running mate, she has repeatedly touted her push for a new pipeline in Alaska as evidence of her executive experience and energy expertise.
But she has often fudged the truth in the process [snip]
Palin was right to say she "fought to bring about" the pipeline. But she implies that it's further along than it really is. And she was wrong -- though not egregiously so -- to say it would be the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. We judge her claim to be Half True.
It is also worth noting that this so called Alaskan Energy Expert doesn't seem to know even the baseline facts about the resources in her State and how much energy Alaska supplies to the Lower 48. FactCheck.org looked into the claims of McCain/Palin campaign and found that Palin says Alaska supplies 20 percent of U.S. energy. Not true. Not even close:
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. [snip]
Sen. John McCain has also has used this inflated, incorrect figure.
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