Palintology VIII – The Queen of Dirty Energy

Sarah Palin has proclaimed herself Queen of Dirty Energy.

Writing in Today’s Washington Post, the doyenne of the American right has vowed to oppose President Obama’s Clean Energy Bill which seeks to reduce the United State’s carbon emissions over coming decades.

Liberal’s are fuming. Sarah Galland from MoveOn.org has just sent an email the million or so who are members of the grass roots advocacy group condemning Ms Palin’s article. 

Her op-ed is a marvel of misinformation and outright lies. Just like conservatives in Congress, Palin is trotting out the “energy taxes” scare tactic, and arguing instead for more drilling and more dirty coal. This bill already has too many giveaways to Big Coal and Big Oil, but it’s still not enough for Palin.

 This is the same Sarah Palin who doesn’t believe climate change is caused by humans.3 The same Sarah Palin who is obsessed with drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And the same Sarah Palin who’s looking for controversial issues to launch a 2012 presidential bid.

Now she’s positioning herself as the face of the conservative attack against clean energy, against the Clean Air Act—even against the creation of millions of new jobs in solar and wind.

But wind and solar create more than twice as many jobs as coal and oil. Clean energy is the only way to make America’s economy competitive in the 21st century.

The truth is we need a stronger energy bill in the Senate to combat our economic and climate crisis, but Sarah Palin’s lies could sink our hopes for a clean energy economy. Can you chip in $35 to fight back against Palin’s false claims?

Ouch!