I am one of the authors of "Sarah takes on Big Oil." Your question is a good one. At first glance a company with the name "Petroleum Newspapers of Alaska LLC" appears to have industry connections. We do not. Petroleum News is the main publication that Anchorage-based Petroleum Newspapers of Alaska owns. Kristen Nelson and I are editors at the weekly newspaper (www.petroleumnews.com). None of the newspaper's writers are allowed to work for the oil and gas industry in any way. Our readers are largely people in the industry and government, although a number of green groups subscribe, too, presumably to keep up on what is happening in the industry. Our company is mainly owned by members of my family and employees. We take a lot of pride in being independent and offer very balanced coverage. General newspapers, such as the Anchorage Daily News, pick up a lot of our articles. Some of the people in the oil industry in Alaska will not like our book, even though we were careful to tell their side of the story, as well as Sarah Palin's. We did not present her as an environmentalist, although she leans in that direction SOME of the time. We concentrated on her battle with the three largest oil producers in Alaska (BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil) over the proposed gas pipeline and a raise in oil production taxes. It was colorful, to say the least. While I admire Palin and have observed her behave in a way I wish more politicians behaved, I am voting for Obama.

You write very well.

Palin's a good looking woman, but I think looks alone aren't really enough to qualify you as the leader of the free world. An a non-american, I'm glad that the republicans got beat, I have no real issue with McCain, but god forbid something should happen to him and Palin ends up the most powerful person on the planet!

Stu needs to open his eyes. What quantifies a potential vice-president of the US on the event of the death of a sitting President the eventual "most powerful person on the planet"? Does anyone here know the name of the Vice-Premier of China? I don't, but fear that he would be a strong contender for the MPP on the Planet. I'm saying with deep regret that the USA through no fault of its own has gravitated to possibly #3. God help us all!