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Most revealing Palin energy whopper: Iran could cut off a fifth of the world's energy supplies

Posted on September 04, 2008

Palin's full speech contained yet another energy lie, one that is very revealing :To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of the world's energy supplies .Not even close. Yes, if you live in a world where the only energy source is oil, then the Persian Gulf countries do produce 20% of the total world supply although it would be next to impossible for Iran to cut it all off. And kind of stupid, since they'd lose tens of billions of dollars in revenues themselves.But we don't live in a world where the only energy supply for the world is oil well, maybe P...

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alternative fuel , iran