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If Cuba Can Drill Off The Coast Of Florida, Why Can't We?
Investopedia ^ | 8-5-09 | Eric Fox

Posted on 08/05/2009 7:25:15 PM PDT by Former MSM Viewer

The agreement signed last week between Cuba and a Russian oil company to explore waters in the Gulf of Mexico raises a question that seems almost like a joke - if Cuba can explore for oil and gas off the coast of Florida, how come the United States can't?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: bhocuba; bhoenergy; drilling; florida; offshoredrilling; oil
Cuba, Russia, etc are drilling right off the coast of Florida. But our government wont allow American Oil companies to drill for oil there...

WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR POLITICIANS?

1 posted on 08/05/2009 7:25:15 PM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Answer: Liberals.


2 posted on 08/05/2009 7:26:00 PM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

That was a rhetorical question, right?


3 posted on 08/05/2009 7:26:04 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Former MSM Viewer

One word: ALGORE


4 posted on 08/05/2009 7:26:45 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Proud member of "The Angry Mob" est. April 19, 1775)
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To: Former MSM Viewer
If Cuba Can Drill Off The Coast Of Florida, Why Can't We?Surely this isn't a series question?
5 posted on 08/05/2009 7:27:46 PM PDT by umgud (Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
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To: umgud

Damn, I screwed that up.


6 posted on 08/05/2009 7:28:33 PM PDT by umgud (Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Better we should be polluted by commie oil slicks than oil slicks from eeevil capitalist oil companies. Also we shouldn’t feed our addiction to oil. /s


7 posted on 08/05/2009 7:29:06 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: grobdriver
Answer: Liberals.

Translated into plain English... communists

8 posted on 08/05/2009 7:29:16 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Why can’t we? The Democrats won’t let us!


9 posted on 08/05/2009 7:29:21 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Former MSM Viewer

I seem to remember that Carter (one-term wonder) signed a treaty with Russia saying we wouldn’t.


10 posted on 08/05/2009 7:30:34 PM PDT by bareford101 (Give me liberty, or give me death!)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Simple. We have elected a bunch of totally insane Liberals.


11 posted on 08/05/2009 7:30:58 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

The one smart thing that Communist governments do is to send environmentalists to gulags.


12 posted on 08/05/2009 7:33:20 PM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: madison10

Those were the exact words I had in mind.


13 posted on 08/05/2009 7:37:49 PM PDT by indyhome
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Cuba’s made a deal with China to drill for oil in the Gulf too, haven’t they?


14 posted on 08/05/2009 8:16:02 PM PDT by pickyourpoison (" Laus Deo ")
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To: Former MSM Viewer

If the politicians had to really deal with 4-5 bucks a gallon, gas lines and all the other fun things we get to deal with, there would be drilling rigs in san francisco bay.


15 posted on 08/05/2009 8:47:26 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: grobdriver

Well if we drill with all of our safety procedures we will destroy the environment with “oil spills” but, if the people of socialist Cuba drill they can be as wasteful and destructive as they like. See the difference? Its all about environmental/leftist politics.


16 posted on 08/05/2009 9:52:36 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Because Cuba has a freer economy?


17 posted on 08/05/2009 9:54:49 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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Because we can’t dictate to Cuba what they can or can’t do, but we can dictate to ourselves what we can or can’t do?

am I close?


18 posted on 08/05/2009 9:56:26 PM PDT by Scotswife
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The Soviet Union began drilling "off the coast of Florida" in the 1970s, and did so until their collapse.

After that, Cuba contracted with Sherritt of Canada to drill "off the coast of Florida", until Sherritt made the big commercial discovery in 2006.

After that discovery, many oil companies drilled "off the coast of Florida".

The reality is that thru the years and decades there has been exploratory drilling in the North Cuban Basin, but, as yet, no one has drilled any production wells "off the coast of Florida".

19 posted on 08/06/2009 6:50:21 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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