CNN gushes over Sarah Palin's policy chops:

Palin's crowd-pleasing speech combined her usual partisan zingers with a heavy dose of policy. Palin spent about half of her talk expounding on differences between Democratic and Republican energy policies, a comfortable topic for the former Alaska governor and onetime chair of the state's Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

Yeah, she's a real energy policy savant, all right.

Except:

During an interview with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, Fox News contributor Sarah Palin falsely claimed that “20 percent of the US domestic supply of energy” comes from Alaska. In fact, according to the most recent data available from the Energy Information Administration, Alaska accounts for no more than 2.9 percent of total domestic energy production.

(Keep in mind, that wasn't a one-time slip-of-the-tongue: She's said similar things before.)

And:

In her memoir, Sarah Palin claims that she vetoed an “earmark for energy conservation” Alaska could have received under the stimulus package because “acceptance of the funds required the adoption and enforcement of energy building codes.” When Palin previously made a similar claim, PolitiFact.com determined that she was “wrong” because “municipalities are not forced to accept the specific standards and, given that local governments set their own codes, the feds would be satisfied if Alaska merely promoted such building codes [emphasis in original].”

And:

In her memoir, Sarah Palin falsely suggests that “those hit hardest [by cap-and-trade] will be those who are already struggling to make ends meet” and that President Obama “has already admitted that the policy he seeks will cause our electricity bills to 'skyrocket.' ” However, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that the poorest Americans will benefit under the cap-and-trade bill that passed in the House in June -- a bill the Obama administration supported, but which Obama was not referring to in making his “skyrocket” comment.

Palin may be “comfortable” talking about energy policy -- but she's also frequently wrong. Very wrong.