Posted on 10/20/2011 8:31:17 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
It's bad enough that some public officials have no second thoughts about drilling for oil off Florida's coastline.
Now Floridians have to be concerned about Cuban drilling, which could be as close at 50 miles from the Florida Keys. A massive Chinese-built rig is expected to begin drilling the first well off Cuba in January.
And what happens if oil drilling in Cuban waters produces a major spill that heads towards Florida's shores? You don't really want to know.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Not
skim it and refine it!!!
get it when and where we can
drill baby, drill!!!
I’m pretty sure we can do nothing about it short of invading to stop it...
The best thing to do is allow drilling off the Florida coast.
Then the spill response equipment would already be in place near by.
Its sad, yet compelling to watch.
For leftist-greens the cognitive dissonance is massive. its like the Cuban missile crisis - for narrow-minded American Leftists.
- Cuba? Good!
- Cuba poking the USA in the eye? Good!
- China is involved? Bad!
- China is drilling for oil? Bad!
- Oil is right off FL shore? Double Bad!
Golly, here I thought Cuba was a sovereign nation; you know, the whole Cuban missle crisis and everything.
Maybe someday we can buy all our oil from Cuba?
Lord knows the Libtards would have a hissy-fit if we considered drilling in the same international waters that pretty much every other nation on the face of the planet is already drilling.
We should just take a page our of Chavez’s book. Annex it. Confiscate the rig and all the equipment and oil. Send the crew away and hand the rig over to America’s favorite Big Oil company.
Serious question... I am told the cuban rigs can be seen from the beaches of Florida in the right spots. Can anyone actually say if that’s true or not?
Buy American oil and do not support terrorists.
Every single stinking, liberal head in the state explodes! Reverse-rapture!!!
I know what we can do about it. We punch down some wells and beat them to it. If we don’t do that, them no one has any room to complain. All it takes is the will to make it happen.
Inquiring minds want to know.
When two countries area overlap, the distance is split evenly.
How ?
Oil is fungible.
I can’t say for sure but perhaps the “Law of the Sea” Treaty is involved?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea
Okay. Thank you. So then am I to assume that my example of Exxon drilling in the middle of the Indian ocean (if more than 200miles from any landmass or island controlled by any Government) would be allowable under international law ?
What we will PROBABLY do is send them some free drilling platforms.
The correct answer is that we have stated officially that we will handle any clean up operations that are needed.
This statement was released last week.
We need to get drilling and quickly.
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