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'Congress is pretty strict on, um, export bans of oil and gas especially'

Posted on October 10, 2008

By Kate Sheppard On Wednesday, John McCain told Fox News' Sean Hannity that his VP pick Sarah Palin is probably one of the foremost experts in this nation on energy issues, and reaffirmed his desire to put her in charge of energy policy in his administration. But on Thursday, Palin once again mangled the facts about energy issues, wrongly asserting to a crowd in Wisconsin that there's some sort of congressional ban on oil exports. A crowd member told her he had heard that 75 percent of Alaska's oil is being sold to China, and if that's true, he wanted to know why. No. It's not ...

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