Looking For Answers To The Oil Crisis? Ask Sarah.

So ... somebody - the Democratic National Committee or the Obama campaign group, or whoever - has sent 30 lawyers to Alaska to see if they can dredge up some dirt to use against Sarah Palin in the Presidential campaign. And guess what: they discover that this PTA President, mayor, governor of the largest state in the 50 United States - knows first hand more about the oil business than all three other candidates combined. Alaska is an oil state, a state that already produces a lot of oil, but more than that, a state with immense oil reserves, plus enough natural gas to keep all America running for decades. Environmentalists have teamed with liberal Congressmen to stop drilling in ANWR, claiming it would sully the pristine area and hurt the Caribou population. Sarah knows better. The area for drilling in ANWR is comparable to a postage stamp on a football field, she quips, and the Caribou have thrived and increased in the 30 years the Alaskan oil pipeline has been active. She has negotiated a deal with the oil companies to build a gas line to the "lower 48 states" and negotiated with the Canadian government to cross their land. In doing all this she had to learn the lessons of world oil trading, and she did. Not only has she had hands-on experience about the oil industry, she also knows about it from the standpoint of jobs for Americans, for her husband is employed in the North Slope oil fields as an hourly worker and a union member. So ...while Congress fumbles and fumes about four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline, Sarah Palin has answers. That's what you get when you put a hockey-mom in charge.

This is Gordon Sawyer and may the wind always be at your back.