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What can the US do about Cuban oil drilling?
South Florida Sun Sentinel ^
| October 19, 2011
| Gary Stein
Posted on 10/20/2011 8:31:17 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement
well wonder if the Chicago Mafia will blackmail the Castro's into a 20 Billion Dollar payoff?
Not
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:33:03 AM PDT
by
scooby321
To: ConservativeStatement
skim it and refine it!!!
get it when and where we can
drill baby, drill!!!
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:33:30 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
To: ConservativeStatement
I’m pretty sure we can do nothing about it short of invading to stop it...
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:34:39 AM PDT
by
stefanbatory
(Insert witty tagline here)
To: ConservativeStatement
The best thing to do is allow drilling off the Florida coast.
Then the spill response equipment would already be in place near by.
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:34:39 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: ConservativeStatement
Its sad, yet compelling to watch.
For leftist-greens the cognitive dissonance is massive. its like the Cuban missile crisis - for narrow-minded American Leftists.
- Cuba? Good!
- Cuba poking the USA in the eye? Good!
- China is involved? Bad!
- China is drilling for oil? Bad!
- Oil is right off FL shore? Double Bad!
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:36:43 AM PDT
by
PGR88
(I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
To: ConservativeStatement
"What can the US do about Cuban oil drilling?"
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:38:46 AM PDT
by
skimbell
To: ConservativeStatement
Golly, here I thought Cuba was a sovereign nation; you know, the whole Cuban missle crisis and everything.
Maybe someday we can buy all our oil from Cuba?
Lord knows the Libtards would have a hissy-fit if we considered drilling in the same international waters that pretty much every other nation on the face of the planet is already drilling.
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:42:55 AM PDT
by
Hodar
( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
To: ConservativeStatement
We should just take a page our of Chavez’s book. Annex it. Confiscate the rig and all the equipment and oil. Send the crew away and hand the rig over to America’s favorite Big Oil company.
Serious question... I am told the cuban rigs can be seen from the beaches of Florida in the right spots. Can anyone actually say if that’s true or not?
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:45:38 AM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
To: ConservativeStatement
Buy American oil and do not support terrorists.
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:46:33 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: ConservativeStatement
And what happens if oil drilling in Cuban waters produces a major spill that heads towards Florida's shores?
Every single stinking, liberal head in the state explodes! Reverse-rapture!!!
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:47:54 AM PDT
by
2001convSVT
(Going Galt as fast as I can.)
To: ConservativeStatement
I know what we can do about it. We punch down some wells and beat them to it. If we don’t do that, them no one has any room to complain. All it takes is the will to make it happen.
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:49:41 AM PDT
by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
To: ConservativeStatement
I Know this may be a stupid question but I really don't know the answer.....how come oil companies need permission from any country to drill in international waters?? I mean couldn't Exxon, for example, just start drilling in the middle of the Indian Ocean away from any nation's jurisdiction ?? Ergo, anywhere in the Caribbean ??
Inquiring minds want to know.
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:51:44 AM PDT
by
mick
(Central Banker Capitalism is NOT Free Enterprise)
To: mick
Exclusive Economic Zones for countries extend out 200 nautical miles. They control the activity in this area, leasing minerals for example.
When two countries area overlap, the distance is split evenly.
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:56:49 AM PDT
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thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: mountainlion
Buy American oil and do not support terrorists. How ?
Oil is fungible.
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posted on
10/20/2011 8:58:03 AM PDT
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: mick
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
10/20/2011 9:05:15 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
To: thackney
Okay. Thank you. So then am I to assume that my example of Exxon drilling in the middle of the Indian ocean (if more than 200miles from any landmass or island controlled by any Government) would be allowable under international law ?
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posted on
10/20/2011 9:05:41 AM PDT
by
mick
(Central Banker Capitalism is NOT Free Enterprise)
To: ConservativeStatement
What we will PROBABLY do is send them some free drilling platforms.
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posted on
10/20/2011 9:12:28 AM PDT
by
Terry Mross
(I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
To: ConservativeStatement
The correct answer is that we have stated officially that we will handle any clean up operations that are needed.
This statement was released last week.
We need to get drilling and quickly.
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