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North Carolina’s Easley: ‘Too much squeeze…’
North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley told reporters on a conference call organized by the Obama camapign that the risks from drilling were too great and the benefits too small.
“It’s just too much squeeze for the juice,” Easley said.
Easley said the offshore drilling proposal offered by Sen. John McCain and President Bush, “doesn’t help working families at all.”
On the same call, Bob Graham, Florida’s former governor and U.S. senator, said voters will realize proposals to allow offshore oil drilling won’t affect gasoline prices.
“There have been more politicians who went to the graveyard because they thought their voters were stupid and could be sold a bogus bill of goods than probably for any other reason,” Graham said.
“Our people are not stupid. They understand that the time that would be required to go through all the processes of leasing the property, having the winning bidders put their pipes down for exploration and then for exploitation, and that that’s going to take years and years and that this issue has nothing to do with the current prices of gasolione…I don’t think you can sell that.”
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