Jun 30 2008
Beverly Perdue Doesn’t Care How Much it Costs you to Drive to Work
Beverly Perdue says offshore drilling would not be safe.
In a statement sent to the press this afternoon, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee attacked her rival, Pat McCrory, for supporting oil exploration off the North Carolina coast.Â
“North Carolina’s coast is in Hurricane Alley and has been called the Graveyard of the Atlantic for a reason,” she said. “I haven’t seen anything that proves to me that drilling there can be done safely or bring down oil prices.”
Echoing recent attacks, she also accused McCrory of “walking in lock-step” with President Bush, and said the state should focus on encouraging conservation and alternative energy sources.
The statement also cited an Associated Press article that noted this federal report said that it would take decades for offshore oil to reach the market and still might not reduce gas prices.
Would Ms. Perdue care to guess how much oil was spilled when Hurricane Katrina roared through the Gulf of Mexico and hit the oil platforms that were there?
Would she also care to tell us just what we’re supposed to do for gas between now and the 20-30 years it’ll take to develop whatever-the-hell these “alternative energy sources” are? Are we just supposed to pay $5, $6, $7 a gallon for gas, Bev?
The Democrats are in for a rude awakening on this issue. They are on the wrong side of it and are using scare tactics to try and frighten people from supporting the push to lift these drilling bans. While a few of them are coming around, most of them don’t have the balls to stand up to the extremist environmental movement whom they are beholden to and instead support what’s best for their constituents.
There are have been oil rigs in the Gulf for years and they held up perfectly fine through Hurricane Katrina and others.