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.
It is not a choice between the USA drilling or Cuba drilling--we can't drill for all the familiar stupid reasons. My comment is that it is better for Cuba to drill than not drill. Rush said on the radio today that he loves the idea...
I saw congressional moratoria and presidential withdrawal in this article. OK, maybe one.
"We...are in serious trouble..."
You are right! We are witnessing the destruction of our nation. We don't have another ten years to stop it and get it reversed. We may not even have five years.
Liberals and Rinos and an apathetic American public hooked on the "Bread and Circuses of the MSM.
Rush only loves the idea because it pokes a finger in the Enviro Nazi's eye. We should be drilling there. Our national enrgy policy is criminal.
How does this work for a country that is 90 miles away?
Mel Martinez wasn't elected because of votes in Miami-Dade, Broward, and PB counties. He was elected by the votes from the more conservative areas of Florida. Too bad he doesn't govern like a conservative.
Nelson was elected with Republican votes from east Central Florida (east Orange County, south Volusia County, and all of Brevard County) who sold out the party because their livelihoods depend on the corporate welfare that Nelson delivers via NASA and its satellite (no pun intended) companies that employ them.
Split it at the halfway point.
I live over seas and cant listen to Rush, but I do try to read his web site at least once a day.
September 18, 1996
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument extends from the town of Boulder in south-central Utah, along the foothills of the Boulder Mountains, 60 miles to the Arizona border and the town of Big Water on U.S. 89. At its widest point, it is nearly 90 miles from Capitol Reef on the northeast boundary to Johnson Canyon near Kanab on the southwest edge.
The Monument encompasses the Grand Staircase in its western portion, the Kaiparowits Plateau in the eastern ,with the Canyons of the Escalante sandwiched between. There are about 2,656 square miles in the Monument, equivalent to a square 52 miles long by 52 miles wide.
The monument is 900,000 acres larger than the total acreage of Utah's five existing national parks. It contains more land than all of the national parks in Utah, Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming (except Yellowstone) combined. The monument abuts the Glen Canyon National Recreation area (1,236,880 acres) on the east and south, and Capitol Reef National Park (241,904 acres) on the northeast and Bryce Canyon National Park (35,835 acres) along the western edge.
"Far East Economic Review"
JAMES RIADY (Indoniasian businessman) INVITES CLINTON TO JOIN LIPPO BOARD This
Riady featured heavily during the revelations of cronyism and illegal campaign funds, a couple of years ago. He covertly donated tens of thousands of dollars to Clinton's campaign. Also, remember the Escalante millions of acres that was declared a National Monument in Utah--to in fact close off the coal mining in that area, in reality. The low sulphur non polluting coal that is mined only in that region of the U.S.? Well the Lippo Enterprise of Indonesia if you will recall, got the contract to import that same quality coal, making us totally dependent on foreign coal, a necessity for energy production in this country. with the stroke of a pen, this criminal president via EO, ensured that America will be dependent on foreign coal and other minerals.
President Bill Clinton to join the board of Lippo Group when he steps down from office early next year, according to business people who have met Riady in Jakarta recently. Riady has been telling business contacts in Jakarta that he expects Clinton to accept, even though the U.S. president has been dogged by allegations that Riady funnelled illegal foreign donations to Clinton's 1992 and 1996 election campaigns. A former Lippo Group employee reports that as far back as the mid-1990's Riady was said to be trying to recruit Clinton to the board as soon as he left office. Jakarta police are currently helping the U.S. Justice Department in its investigation of the alleged campaign contributions.
Thank you. What you posted were exactly the actions of Clinton that I was refering to.
It's economic madness U.S. laws forbid offshore drilling in key locations while a Red tyrant 90 miles off the coast of Key West is drilling.
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She should, since nobody is going to vote for her anyway.
Sure, we'd rather have a Venezuelen-owned U.S. subsidiary drill this under OUR banner. But the poster is correct. If Cuba gets a million barrels a day from the Gulf, that's a million barrels it doesn't buy from the rest of the world, lowering demand by a million barrels and easing the fears of shortage that drive up the prices.
It is stupid though that we don't allow our own companies to drill where other countries are already drilling.
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