Yes, they will say almost anything if they feel it will help elect America's first Enabler-in-Chief!  I fail to see a downside if the rest of America, indeed the world, experiences what it's like to be an Alaskan under the current regime's war on energy.  The fittest will survive unless, of course, the printing presses are run overtime to hand out free money.  In that case it's long-term survival that comes into question.