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• 1. swamprat  |  September 20th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

  Your pulling my leg Pat. That was a Saturday Night Live skit wasn’t it?

• 2. Pat Cunningham  |  September 20th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

  swamprat: No, that was no SNL skit. Palin was asked how she would keep domestically produced oil and coal in the US. Here’s what she said: “Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans who get stuck holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It’s got to flow into our domestic markets first.”

  If you think about it long and hard, there’s probably something vaguely intelligible in what she was trying to say. I think she wants to keep domestically produced oil in the domestic market. But, of course, she never said how she’d do it. It was weird. I don’t know what that stuff about “fungible” and “molecules” was all about. She probably thought they sounded like smart words, so she used them.

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