Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Sarah Palin speech energy highlight.

Nicely tying energy independence to foreign policy:
With Russia wanting to control a vital pipeline in the Caucasus and to divide and intimidate our European allies by using energy as a weapon, we cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of foreign suppliers.

Russia wants to control the supply of oil and spike prices with militaristic adventures? Well, they can't reap the benefits of such attacks if a large flowing oil supply is safe, far from their reach.