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"Jesse Prentice-Dunn, transportation policy analyst at the Sierra Club, [said]
"I think hopefully [rising gas prices] will focus our attention on the addiction to foreign oil and allow us to really address the problem," [...]
"I think $5 a gallon gas is the best incentive I know to find a rational energy plan that would create jobs, make us more energy independent and clean up the air," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said."Panel hears mixed opinions on offshore energy
"Retired Marine Lt. Col. Brian Kramer asked that the panel keep the issue of national defense in its discussions as it develops recommendations for the governor.
"Our nation is addicted to oil … and as long as we are, we are going to be bound to a part of the world that doesn't share our values," he said.
Kramer said he is against oil exploration, and finding oil off the coast of North Carolina would not end that tie to the Middle East.
While one person spoke in favor of offshore drilling and the jobs it could produce, the majority of the support was for clean, renewable energy."
