Posted on 10/05/2009 10:00:18 AM PDT by caper gal 1
President Obama has opposed any expanded oil drilling off American shores largely on environmental grounds, turning a deaf ear to conservative cries of "Drill, Baby, Drill."
But now Obama may start hearing cries of "foul" after the U.S. Export-Import Bank promised Petrobras, Brazil's state-owned oil company, $2 billion in loan guarantees to help finance lucrative drilling off the shores of Rio De Janeiro.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Petrobras also a major sponsor of the Rio Olympics.
well, Lula is going to have to pay for those Olympics somehow...
OK, I’ll play the race card. White-bread America can’t drill offshore, but those swarthy natives can crap up their ocean shores using our money. Yup, that’s about right. STOOOPID!!!
Will they be BIG contributors to the DEMS and ZERO’s campaign??? Gotta be a kickback somewhere other than paying off SOROS.
When this was originally reported, it was a grant, not a loan.
Do we know?
There’s a kickback in there somewhere...
The rich get richer as more and more Americans are unemployed.
Not a problem though: their guy is in office. :)
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