It's the rage with all the conservatives.  If you count oil shale then we have the largest reserves. They just arn't commercially exploitable reserves; and may never be.  This is of course in the magic neocon world where are barrels are equal.  So basically we'll spend a few hundred billion bringing the oil shale online; to finally cook the planet, when we could just convert over to solar and wind for half the cost.

he's completely insane.  However, it's unlikely, as his campaign later came out with some lameass statement about McCain really having meant "coal" not "oil."  No mention of oil shale...

when oil wasn't over $100 per barrel.  At that price oil shale and tar sands are certainly economically viable.  $40 a barrel, not so much.

She's Americas #1 expert on energy, you know

how much oil Alaska has, or that coal and oil are not "fungible molecules."  On the other hand, she can see Russia from her house!!!!  Oh wait, she can't.  D'oh!!!

Obviously she can't see Russia from her house - she was careful to point out that it was from some remote point in Alaska.  

So, has she ever gone to that point and actually looked at Russia?  If the highlight of her foreign experience is that she could see Russia from Alaska I sure hope she's actually gone for a look.

Oh, and we should stop making fun of her because she is an energy expert - she has refueled her car with gasoline.  Yep, that's "energy" and she's been hands on with it.  And she's plugged in some appliances around the house  which use electricity, which is of course "energy" as well.  In fact, all this hands on work with energy outstrips her vast foreign policy experience, which certainly should make her a leading energy expert.

Little Diomede Island. Or held any trade missions with Russia.  Or seen Russia from her house. :)

I think he knows he is lying through his teeth, but he will tell his willfully ignorant base what they want to believe, and they will believe him. I know some of these people. They are hopeless.

he's including offshore oil (like, all the way offshore to the border of every other freaking country that has a coastline on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the Gulf of Mexico?!?), and ... vegetable oil?, or maybe canola oil?

What a maroon.

that few in his base and really few Americans would look up. Many will believe it because they WANT to believe it. It's hard enough to explain the fact that oil will become so expensive to pull out of the ground that it is no longer economically viable. Imagine peoples' faces when you say that their kids or grandkids will never experience flying in an airplane. It doesn't compute for most people.

The problem with oil is that once you use it, it is gone.  America used to have vast oil reserves, but we drilled for them, and used them up.  Thank your grandparents and parents for that!  We do have excellent coal reserves and our natural gas reserves remain amongst the greatest in the world.  However, coal continues to be dirty, and rail infrastructure continues to use up oil to bring coal to many of these power plants.  Our natural gas reserves are insufficient to keep up with demand as we try to wean ourselves off of foreign oil for our automobiles and wean ourselves off of domestic coal for power production.  Nuclear Power is part of the solution, but not the whole solution.  Nuclear Power is still expensive, and needs time to establish a greater presence.  Many existing Nuclear facilities are facing retirement.  So most of the new Nuclear Plants scheduled to come online in the next decade will be replacing the old ones.  

So, we have a problem.  What Barack Obama understands, and John McCain does not is that America has perhaps the greatest wind resources, geothermal resources, and solar resources in the world.  Unlike nations without an established infrastructure, these resources in the U.S. are accessible to the market through the existing transmission grid.  New transmission lines can bring even more of these DOMESTIC resources to the market.  Renewable energy projects can be developed more quickly than Nuclear Power.  Thus, a rigorous plan for renewable energy development can build a bridge to help meet new load until we bring more Nuclear plants online.  Another 2 million homes will be served by wind power by the end of 2008 than were served by it in 2007.  Wind will likely make up over 50% of new electric generation capacity in 2008.  Being that these renewable power plants can offset use of oil, and can reduce price volatility of natural gas...oh yeah, and they don't contribute to global warming...maybe John McCain should rephrase.

John, how about this:
"the world's largest RENEWABLE ENERGY reserves are in the United States of America."