re: #335 Right Brain

… Sarah Palin, at the time Governor of Alaska, in control of roughly 13% of the proven oil reserves …

There were many reasons to down-ding your statement, this being one of them.

Sarah Palin was no more in “control” of the oil deposits in AK than she was of anything else that involved federal land and private companies.

Indeed, all the declining oil production of Alaska bought for Palin was the ability to duck serious questions about raising taxes on her people, as other governors must ordinarily face. Fortunately for her, she bailed on her state before the declining oil revenues got so low she would have had to seriously raise taxes, which wouldn’t look good on her resume.