"If the United States moves ahead by itself [on cap-and-trade]... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than one percent."
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day."
Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."
Contends that President Obama "literally said (if) his cap-and-trade proposals were to pass, that utility rates, his words now, would, 'necessarily skyrocket.'"
There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats "say all this American energy is off limits."
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
Energy nominee Steven Chu has called coal "his worst nightmare."
"Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using."
"We're building a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever."
"I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history."
"Through competition as governor, I got agreements to build a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline."
"Senator Obama thinks we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power."
Drilling in ANWR would have minimal impact, covering only "2,000 out of 20-million acres."
"As governor, I've stood up to ... the big oil companies."
McCain "said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars."
"Today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office."
"Barack Obama and Joe Biden oppose new drilling at home and oppose nuclear power."
McCain's energy plan is a "single-answer proposition" — new domestic oil drilling.
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