Beverly Perdue opposes offshore oil drilling in North Carolina.
The Democratic gubernatorial nominee issued a statement today saying she is "100 percent opposed" to proposals to encourage offshore drilling off the Outer Banks.
"President Bush has cozied up to the oil companies with tax breaks and all they have given us is $4 dollar a gallon gas, while our focus should be on developing green energy alternatives to reduce our dependence on foreign oil," she said in a statement. "Offshore drilling would take years to provide any benefit, while just one hurricane or Exxon Valdez incident could destroy North Carolina's coastline forever along with the economy that depends on it."
Previously: Gov. Mike Easley attacks offshore drilling proposal.
Correction: An earlier version of this post misstated where Perdue was opposed to drilling.
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Re: Perdue opposes offshore drilling
The oil companies are exporting crude to overseas markets and letting them drill more domestically or offshore would be a waste of our oil because we wouldn't of received any benefit. Research how much crude oil, heating oil, natural gas, LNG, diesel, and gasoline is exported from this country and you would be shocked. Lots of the oil in the Alaskan Pipeline is shipped to Japan. The oil companies say they want to build/expand more refineries and do more drilling, but I say they don't need to do either until we stop all exports. We can never be energy independent as long as we continue exporting to other countries. Offshore drilling and onshore drilling in Alaska is extremely attractive to oil companies because one offshore well can equal fifteen onshore wells in production and drilling in Alaska produces large volumes of oil. For every barrel of oil we send overseas that's another barrel of oil we have to import.
A good rule of thumb regarding oil....it always chases the dollar bill and goes to the most illogical spot.