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To: Dale Baker who wrote (85167)	9/17/2008 6:53:04 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541403

Factcheck has posted two updates to their piece, one yesterday and one today, to their column on Plain's claims about Alaskan energy: factcheck.org There are some links in the original. Update, Sept. 16: The Washington Post's Fact Checker reports that Palin has modified her claim, saying at a campaign appearance Sept. 15 that she oversees "20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of oil and gas." That's still wrong. The Fact Checker points out the correct number is 7.4 percent, according to EIA. See our post on The FactCheck Wire for more. [http://wire.factcheck.org/2008/09/16/energetically-wrong-still/ ] Update, Sept. 17: The Associated Press, in reporting on Palin's "inflated" energy claim, contacted the Alaska Resource Development Council and confirmed that its 20 percent figure is badly out of date. It quoted Carl Portman, the group's deputy director, as saying that the figure is an average for the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, which The AP noted was "long before Palin became governor at the end of 2006." Portman was quoted as saying his group "planned to update the site to make it more clear that the 20 percent figure is over a period of time." And indeed, when we checked, the Web page had been changed to say that the state's oil and gas industry accounted "for an average of 20 percent of the entire nation's domestic production (1980 - 2000). Currrently, Alaska accounts for nearly 15% of U.S. production." Even that 15 percent figure, however, is higher than the official statistics kept by the federal government, as we have already noted. Also, in response to questions from some readers, we have written a post on The FactCheck Wire that explains our methodology.