Sarah Palin, the most knowledgeable person in America about energy, fielded a question on the subject at a recent townhall meeting:
“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,” Palin said. “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 that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It’s got to flow into our domestic markets first.”
I, for one, support flagging some coal and oil molecules to be diverted to our hungry market. I say “flag baby flag.”
And I’ll be goddamned if I get stuck to any energy bags that I’m holding!
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I find my own flag–that of my disposition–to be a fungible commodity, and that I sometimes like to hold it.