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U.S. agonizes over offshore drilling
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| Jun 6, 2006
| Donna Borak
Posted on 06/06/2006 1:22:23 PM PDT by Ben Mugged
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To: Richard-SIA
We beat Cuba how many times?
When did we fight Cuba?
To: Doe Eyes
Ya..they found them...after they had been copied.
Someone accidently put top-secret hard drives behind a copy machine...but nobody found them the first 4 times they searched.
If you remember, there was a fire that caused an evacuation of the facility and it was only due to that evacuation that the drives were discovered to be missing. They were supposed to be in a safe that had red-chinese walking in and out of it daily with the other "scientists" in the lab smiling and waving as they did so.
Can you say "Clinton Era"??
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posted on
06/06/2006 3:56:59 PM PDT
by
Paloma_55
(Still MAD as HELL!!!)
To: Paloma_55
Ya..they found them...So when you said missing, you were ... wrong.
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posted on
06/06/2006 4:04:55 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: Ben Mugged
Cuba - extracting the oil that Americans won't extract.
To: mastercylinder
I say we let them drill it's their land anyway.
I think the problem is that many of these pools of undersea oil cross international boundaries. It's kind of like the situation between Iraq and Kuwait before the first Desert Storm. There was a huge pool of oil overlapping both countries' territories. Saddam had neglected oil exploration and was tapping only relatively small amounts, whereas Kuwait was just swimming in it. Basically, if Cuba drills and finds one of these pools near the center line, it will basically extract billions of barrels of what could have been pumped out by an American oil company - on which it would have paid taxes - not to mention the millions of individual investors who would have received dividends or made capital gains on the oil find. Instead, all the money will go to Cuba. The politicians we have in office aren't Americans and certainly don't represent our interests - they see themselves as world leaders ultimately accountable to billions of foreigners.
To: AppyPappy
The Sierra Club communists have no problem with Chinese communists drilled off communist Cuba's coast. Wonder why that is...
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posted on
06/06/2006 4:14:44 PM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(And though getting up in the world attracts attention, it does not establish solid worth.)
To: Ben Mugged
We can't do business with Cuba! They're Commies fer cryin' out loud.
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posted on
06/06/2006 4:22:43 PM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Polybius
If it weren't for the fact that Cuban Americans in Florida vote over 80% Republican, President Al Gore would be in his second term right now. Oil Companies...Cuban Voters, Oil Companies...Cuban Voters. Rock and a Hard Place, for sure.
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posted on
06/06/2006 4:26:22 PM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Ben Mugged
Florida and California are retarded. It's as simple as that. We shouldn't be blaming Cuba or China for doing something that we should be doing ourselves.
We've been drilling offshore Texas and Lousiana for 50 years. Our techniques have only improved. Even with hurricanes destroying countless platforms, you read NOTHING about oil spills.
I repeat, Florida and California are retarded.
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posted on
06/06/2006 4:27:25 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Doohickey
Apparently nobody in government believes that Flordia's coveted tourism industry is threatened by the price of fuel? Or examined how it is that the very sight of an offshore rig would imperil Florida's coveted tourist industry in any way...
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posted on
06/06/2006 4:28:18 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: Doohickey
Other than Alcee Hastings, that is.
To: JLAGRAYFOX
Don't leave out the RINO's who are enabling them in their quest to bring down our country and economy.
To: Ben Mugged
It's insane that we aren't "allowed" to drill our own oil.
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posted on
06/06/2006 4:32:03 PM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Smokin' Joe
The enviros have this whole country by the b@!!s.... look at the outcry when Huntington Beach wanted to go to desalinzation and the enviros started screaming it will ruin the environment and hurt the fish.
To: thackney
To: Zhang Fei
I see your point. I was only talking about oil in their territory. I wasn't trying to say it was ok for them to drill in our territory.
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posted on
06/06/2006 4:56:55 PM PDT
by
mastercylinder
(Evolution: Taking care of those too stupid to take care of themselves.)
To: mastercylinder
I wasn't trying to say it was ok for them to drill in our territory.
If the pool crosses boundaries, they don't have to drill in our territory to extract oil within our boundaries. And they would be well within their rights to extract that oil. The fact is that with cross-boundary reserves, the side that moves the fastest gets most of the oil. And if we don't drill on our side of the boundary, Cuba will get 100% of that oil.
To: Live and let live conservative
TR, San Juan Hill, NONE of that seems familiar to you?
I was trying to remember if that was the only Cuban American war or the second one.
Later Kennedy the First abandoned the Cuban freedom fighters to Castro's slaughter when he denied them air support.
Cuba today might virtually be Hawaii east if Castro had been driven out.
We should have annexed Cuba a long time ago, now it's probably too late, although I suspect it may be inevitable when continental U.S. resources truly get thin, or Cuba becomes too much of a pain in the rear.
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posted on
06/06/2006 6:45:49 PM PDT
by
Richard-SIA
("The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" JEFFERSON)
To: Richard-SIA
TR, San Juan Hill, NONE of that seems familiar to you?
Ummmm.... that was the Spanish American War. We were fighting the Spanish alongside the Cubans who gained their independence in 1902. We've never fought a war against Cuba as an independent nation.
To: Doe Eyes
Ya..they found them...
So when you said missing, you were ... wrong.
No. You are wrong.
I did not say they are "STILL" missing. I said they WERE missing. Not any more.
You got a point?!?
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posted on
06/06/2006 9:28:09 PM PDT
by
Paloma_55
(Still MAD as HELL!!!)
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