I think we don’t know what we’ve got in Alaska. Much remains unexplored. Off the coast of Anwar for instance. We may have much more there than we have ever imagined.

While pumping the oil from the current facilities in Alaska they get very large quantities of natural gas, which they pump back down into the ground, if I understand it aright. New pipelines should be bringing it south.

First think we ought to do, along with building nuclear power plants, is switch our interstate trucking over to natural gas. You’d cut the nation’s diesel use by 40% I’d wager.

Palin/McCain 2008