Too bad, IBD, folks! Sarah Palin is persona non grata in Washington. She could invent a magical, eternally renewable energy resource that was simultaneously capable of curing cancer and male pattern baldness and Congress still wouldn’t twitch an eyebrow.

At the time, it was thought that Chukchi’s waters northwest of Alaska’s landmass held 30 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

Today, Science magazine reports that the U.S. Geological Survey now finds it holds more than anyone thought — 1.6 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered gas, or 30% of the world’s supply and 83 billion barrels of undiscovered oil, 4% of the global conventional resources.

That’s enough U.S. energy to achieve self-sufficiency and never worry about it as a national security question again.

{ht: ihatethemedia.com}