Posted on 04/12/2006 5:49:13 AM PDT by thackney
We've noted in this space repeatedly that our competitors must just look at us and shake their heads in disbelief that we won't tap our own rich reserves of natural resources, most notably with coal, in ANWR and in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
Well, now we can go one better: how do you feel about countries taping that supply while we cannot? What if it's a Communist country, living under a dictatorship? Unfortunately you don't have to look very far. In fact, only 90 miles from Key West sits Fidel Castro's Cuba. Castro, worried about continuing to live off of Venezuelan President Chavez' largess, has decided to start his own deep water exploration. As Rep. John Peterson (R-PA) -- author of a bill that would open the OCS to common-sense and environmentally-friendly regulation -- writes in the Miami Herald:
"[T]o help get at vital and abundant supplies of offshore energy, [Cuba] has chosen tracts of real estate in the Gulf of Mexico as close as 45 miles from Florida. Forty-five miles is just a bit farther than the distance between the University of Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
Imagine what Castro is thinking as we spend our time quarreling over whether we should produce American energy 100, 150 or 250 miles from the Florida coast while he makes arrangements to set up shop hundreds of miles closer. He must love that we've allowed emotion to win out over reason, facts to be dwarfed by fear and our nation's energy policy to be driven by unreasonable environmental concerns."
You should click here to weigh in on the Interior Department's long-range plan for the OCS, which is inadequate. Deadline is c.o.b. today. But you should also let your representatives know while they're home these two weeks what is happening to your energy prices. Please ask why they support a policy that forbids drilling in the OCS by us but not by Fidel Castro.
LOL! You don't really believe that do you?
Castro's a socialist, he's not interested in his country/people. He's interested in himself, and at best, his family.
Myself, I think he's doing it to poke us in the eye.
Right. Castro is one of their patron saints and can do no wrong in his "Worker's Paradise". What a crappy double standard.
We all seem to be on the same page in regard to our future. Unfortunately, we are the minority. I hate being a pessimist, I wasn't raised that way and I have tried to live my life in a positive manner relying on Christ to give me strength. However, as hard as I try, I can't see how we are going to right this ship of ours. Maybe I should just chalk it up to the fact that the Bible tells us this is how things will be in the last days...
I just keep doing my best to mimimize the progress toward that day. I don't feel it's the end of the world, but will be like the fall of the roman empire.
It would be GREAT if that happened. Can't you see
the environMENTAL activists marching in Habana?
Or John Kerry decrying the destruction of the pristine
ocean environment. I'm sure he would blame the
old policies of the US versus Castro forcing Castro
to spoil the environment...
That's my take on it. We're flirting with global meltdown.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>It has been predicted, and I won't argue against it, that the population must crash with at least one third of the world population dying off at some point for some reasons to reach a sustainable level. I don't see how the population can reach the levels predicted before it peaks.
Russ, I wish I could disagree, but the plan now is to try to find some way to provide for our families and what is inevitably to come. Take care.
I think the population would be sustainable at current and above levels. I'm just not convinced man is going to be able to manage things, international strife and greed being what it is. I know that some people see the population thing different. I would like to see folks reign in their large size families, but it's a way of taking over other nations and until people get what they want, and they never will, the explosion will continue.
You are so right.
I think the population would be sustainable at current and above levels.
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Depends on how high is up! There must obviously be some level which exceeds the capacity of the planet. I read one opinion piece in which the author said that some huge number could live in an area the size of Texas without the density exceeding that of present day Japan. I haven't been to Japan but I have some idea of the density and I don't want to live that way. Personally I think South Carolina is becoming overcrowded for my tastes.
Can't find anything via google on Moses Mining. Do you have any links, or anything? Thanks!
He's not on the internet.....he's in the Old Testament. His procedure for removing the water from the seabed is documented in Genesis, I believe.....
Dang, didn't realize the o'burden was liquid, and the ore being transferrred was human.
I'll bet the competetion were scared, and dared not follow them after that first foray!
We are about the same age. I am surprised we have got as far as we have. This might be as far as we get and there are several indicators: National Debt, foreign oil, peak easy oil, housing bubble, bird flu, Iran, illegal immigration, Hillary, etc. We can each make our own list and point to one or another factor as being decisive or not likely to be important, but there are so many possibilities that sooner or later one or more will let go and that will be the high water mark for a long time to come.
Sounds like Chavez is advising Castro along with financing this drilling.
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