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Palin ahead of the curve in 2006 on "all of the above" solutions to energy problems

By Beldar

Long before the current spike in gasoline prices at the pump that has kindled the raging debate on national energy policy, even before she had ever been elected to any statewide office, Sarah Palin was already studying what her state should do as the world begins to exhaust its petrochemical resources.

Specifically, during the same November 2006 Alaska gubernatorial debate that I quoted from in the post below, the embedded video from PrestoPundit contains (at about 59 minutes into the video) a question to the three candidates ? independent Andrew Halcro, GOP nominee Sarah Palin, and Democratic nominee Tony Knowles ? about whether the state should get involved in making up the missing funding for a proposed pilot project to bring nuclear energy to the village of Galena, Alaska (population 675).

Full post as published by BeldarBlog on September 02, 2008 (boomark / email).