Posted on 03/20/2008 2:56:09 PM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet
Cuba invites bids to develop oil reserves 45 miles off the coast of South Florida that are as large as those in ANWR. So why are the United States and its Navy buying oil from a state sponsor of terror?
The Heritage Foundation reports that when U.S. Navy and Marine personnel fill up at their local Navy Base Exchange, they're buying their gasoline from a company owned by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Citgo has a $60-million-a-year contract to supply the Navy Exchange with gas through 2010.
The irony is that it's also negotiating a multibillion-dollar, multiyear contract to buy four Kilo-class diesel submarines and four state-of-the-art Amur submarines. They're intended to confront the U.S. Navy in the Caribbean and try to sink the ships those sailors and Marines sail on.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
Rhonda Shore, spokeswoman for the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, says that in order to qualify, a government must have "repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism." That shouldn't be hard.
Designating Venezuela as a state sponsor of terror would shut off its oil exports to the U.S., where its Citgo refineries are among the few in the world that can handle its heavy crude. This would make it hard for Chavez to export his tyranny and even stay in power.
Soon there will be rigs 45 miles off the coast of Florida tapping into oil and gas reserves nearly as large as those contained in a tiny frozen part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But the rigs will belong to Hugo's friend and ally, the Cuba of Fidel and Raul Castro.
(Oh yes, musn't forget to send our "appreciation" to W's useless POS brother, Jeb-zebell)
"The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the North Cuban Basin contains as many as 9.3 billion barrels of oil (multiply by $100 plus) and almost 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
"Thanks to an agreement negotiated by Jimmy Carter that splits the 90 miles of water between the U.S. and Cuba for economic purposes, it will not be exploited by us.
(News to me, but not surprised considering all the other harm the worst President ever managed to inflicnt on us in just 4 years)
Between this brillinat move and Clinton's Reclamation Act before he left office (which designated as off limits the LARGEST low-sulfur coal deposits IN THE WORLD)coupled with the Enviro-Nuts success in blocking any new exploration and drilling, in addition to W having been a weak leader and gone over to the "dark side," I'm surprised we are ONLY paying $3.25 a gallon.
The first rule in Government Corruption was, is, and always will be ....”Follow the Money” or as they say ,”Who Benefits?”
If we let Cuba drill that area, we deserve these oil prices.
The tree huggers and envirnuts need to sit down, shut up, and stay out of the way. It’s time to drill offshore, onshore, ANWR, my backyard if that will help. We need to step up to the plate on this one, and soon.
We should offer the Cuban’s free election to see if they want to become number 51!!!
The problem? Congress has passed laws dictating that we cannot drill off the coast of Florida for green reasons. Just as we cannot drill off the coast of California.
What will be funny is not if, but when, China oil rigs and taners leak like sivs onto the pristean beaches of Florida.
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