Mandate that every new car sold in the USA must be Flex fuel compliant by 2010 and provide standards for FLEX retrofitting kits.
Mandate Reverse Metering nationwide — enabling small clean generators of power to PROFIT when their generation exceeds their use.
Enact large windfall taxes on OIL and GAS companies who are using FEDERAL and STATE lands.
Remove the Government impediments to Clean Energy projects
Provide cheap government backed loans for all clean energy projects (small and large) – wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, etc.
Provide LARGE tax rebates for all electric cars.
Provide LARGE tax rebates for clean batteries (non-toxic).

99% of the oil profits in Alaska is derived from state owned land, and it would only be responsible management for the state to obtain the maximum profit for the state owned resources. The state is acting as any private company would, getting the highest return for their shareholders, who happen to be the Alaska residents. THIS TAX ONLY APPLIES TO STATE-OWNED-LAND.

The tax is set at its highest rate in Prudhoe Bay, where the state takes 25 percent of the net profit of a barrel when its price is at or below $52.

The percentage then escalates as oil prices rise over that benchmark. Alaska gets about $49 of a $120 barrel, not counting other fees.

BP Alaska, which runs Prudhoe Bay, said earlier this year that it had delayed the development in the western region of the North Slope as a result of the tax. ConocoPhillips cited the same reason for scrapping a $300 million refinery project.

Investment dollars are flowing instead to places that have a better return, like the massive deep-water projects offshore in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, where ConocoPhillips said the government take equals less than 50 percent of the barrel.

In July, BP announced it would begin developing the Liberty oil field, a $1.5 billion project expected to yield 100 million barrels of oil, located on federal lands in Alaska. If the project had been located in state lands on the North Slope, “I don’t think we’d have been able to make that investment,” Suttles said.

Alaska state officials say they still do plenty to court the oil industry, such as giving small, independent producers breaks on royalty payments. And the state tax bill includes a generous provision for deducting investments in new fields or other capital costs.

Although Alaska’s huge resources and relative political stability make it affordable for oil firms to pay huge taxes there, “you don’t want take so much that you discourage activity,” said Kenneth Medlock, a petroleum economist at Rice University in Houston. “You want to strike that fine balance.”

The federal government could easily apply this to federal leases, but this type of legislation has been often blocked by a few Republican Senators.

This is a simple one – The people of Alaska and the USA are the owners of 92% of the LAND and the OIL which is underneath the land (State and Federal Land).

Of course as a land owner, one should be paid equitable for the extraction and transportation of OIL from/across your own land.

The PorkQueen was talking out of her ass – lying really – and poor schmucks in funny hats were lapping up the bullshit. PorkQueen is one of the biggest frauds ever sold to the electorate in American history. The Jerry Springer shit is actually a distraction from what a fluff and a phony she is.

On the second, Palin may have cut back – having been for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it – but Alaska under her tenure has gotten the highest per capita rate of pork of any state and, as the article states, cut it back only after it became a political embarrassment. Lest we forget, it had to get to the point where Ted Stevens – who she used in her campaign ads just two years ago – was actually indicted. So is she a smart pol ? No doubt. Has she shown integrity on pork over her tenure as mayor and as governor. But my biggest question is this: How does leading a small state and a small town that had the advantage of either-or-both a huge revenue base from oil, a revenue base that allows Alaska’s governor to send a couple grand to each resident (to the tune of something like $27,000 going to a Palin-sized family) coupled with the highest level of pork spending coming from the fed of any state in the union (and same for Wasilla, which recieved unusually high pork bucks after Palin hired a professional lobbyist and started traveling regularly to DC to dip into the trough) – how does that actual record make Palin someone who has the kind of executive experience to govern even a more complex state that has real tax-spend issues, much less the USofA.

This woman has been a PorkQueen, has governed an entity that has a tax base more like Brunei’s than, say, Illinois’ or the country as a whole, and only backed off some of the worst excesses when scandal erupted.

The whole argument for her candidacy is a joke – unless you happen to be the kind of disingenuous ideolgue who hold much of the GOP hostage.

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There’s the understatement of the year.

Look, if people are really so dumb as to vote for McCain because of the Moosehunter then we deserve what we get and everyone should make plansm for the debacle to follow. But I still have hope that folks aren’t that dumb.