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Food and heating fuel reportedly being rationed in Alaska
AMERICAblog reader Karen sent in a story that if it's true, is just abominable. If Alaska Governor Sarah Palin can't feed her own people - perhaps she can sell a few clothes - then the federal government should step in. We should not be reading these kind of news stories in America. A ...
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Sarah Palin's Alaska Miracle
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... in the village asking families to describe how they were weathering the fuel crisis in rural Alaska. Tucker requests a “massive airlift” of food and said money from churches, state agencies and other groups is needed to offset the high fuel prices. The 100 gallons of free heating fuel for every home in Alaska Native communities that has been promised by oil company Citgo will help. But it won’t be enough because it will last only one month, he said. (h/t)

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