A few things, Mrs. Palin. If we were using renewable energy sources, this would never have happened. Most energy sources are quite viable if we pooled the money together efficiently, namely nuclear energy. Secondly, I personally spend a lot of time invested in reading these kinds of things, and I have never once heard a conservative such as yourself claim that onshore drilling will replace offshore drilling (or that it would prevent oil spills). More importantly, I believe that in the recent past, conservatives were working behind a movement to increase offshore drilling. I think Mrs. Palin is in no place to be pulling the, “We told you so!” In fact, I would argue that those on the side of moving to renewable energy sources are the ones who can start “I told you so”-ing.