Drill bits
Friday, August 29th, 2008
By Staff
So the advocates of offshore drilling — which might include areas off the precious and fragile Outer Banks of North Carolina — seem to want people to believe that such drilling would cause the price of a gallon of gasoline to nosedive. Bring back the good old days. Get all those SUVs up and running.
Uh, huh.
Politicians at all levels are shifting like the sands in some distant oil field. Republican presidential hopeful John McCain was opposed, and now he's not. Democrat Barack Obama seems to be looking things over, in terms of the degree of his opposition, which is not as absolute as once it was.
And on the gubernatorial level, North Carolina Democrat Beverly Perdue, perhaps anticipating a barrage of advertising by her Republican opponent, Pat McCrory, said recently that she would convene experts and have them assess the environmental risks of drilling. She has denied in recent ads that she is absolutely opposed. (Republican Gov. Jim Martin brought experts together once, a couple of decades ago. Their findings persuaded him to oppose drilling.) (more…)
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