While we sit here wringing our hands about off shore drilling, Cuba is contracting with foreign firms to drill in the gulf a mere 50 miles from our shore. Maybe Cuba will be nice enough to sell us some, or it may just wash ashore.

http://www.energy-pedia.com/article....ticleid=140197

matter. Accompanied by my usual patter on this subject.

Where are the special interest lobby masters? Cuba is not on their payroll!!

btk

Originally Posted by billethkid

matter. Accompanied by my usual patter on this subject.

Where are the special interest lobby masters? Cuba is not on their payroll!!

btk

I don't think the Sierra Club has much influence in Cuba.

Cuba also doesn't have our legislating judiciary. (Not if they don't want to end up in unmarked graves, anyway)

There is a big oil field off the coast of Florida but we are not drilling. Also if you look at the US reports we have more oil in Montana and that area than Saudis have why arent we drilling. Kill the economy thats the moto. And they are doing a good job. We are not free in this country we are being held captive.

A quote from the President while vacationing in Brazil...

""We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers."

That was his quote...this an editorial comment...

"His "What, me worry?" presidency has given both Americans and our allies plenty to worry about. But in the process of making nice with Brazil, Obama made a mind-boggling announcement that should make even his most loyal supporter cringe:

We will help Brazil develop its offshore oil so we can one day import it.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnal...azil-Drill.htm

While all of this U.S. largesse to the nation of Brazil is going on to expand their share of the world oil market, in our own country we have lost 19,000 jobs and 1.1 Billion Dollars in wages since this same President instituted the oil drilling moratorium.

It really makes you wonder what the true objectives of this President and his Administration are in this. It certainly doesn't seem to me that he has the best interests of our country or it's citizens in mind when he squashes American jobs and gives our money to foreign oil interests. I find it hard to believe that everyone wouldn't be outraged at this, but I know some will defend him no matter what he does out of partisan reflex.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...n-wages-lost-n

Originally Posted by RichieLion

While all of this U.S. largesse to the nation of Brazil is going on to expand their share of the world oil market, in our own country we have lost 19,000 jobs and 1.1 Billion Dollars in wages since this same President instituted the oil drilling moratorium.

It really makes you wonder what the true objectives of this President and his Administration are in this. It certainly doesn't seem to me that he has the best interests of our country or it's citizens in mind when he squashes American jobs and gives our money to foreign oil interests. I find it hard to believe that everyone wouldn't be outraged at this, but I know some will defend him no matter what he does out of partisan reflex.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...n-wages-lost-n

This quote will not bother those folks one bit, HOWEVER a slip of the tongue by someone on the right will garner post after post after post, even if the person who slips up is not an elected official. Those are more important than quotes by the President of the United States.

Let's announce we are going to exploit our domestic availability and after serving our needs go on the world market and COMPETE with the other oill producing nations to sell what we don't need.

A great deficit reducer.

But we will have to wait for a POTUS who has that as a priority VS our current administration that would not want to upset the Muslims/Arabians and who ever else that has us over a barrel (PUN intended).

Waiting patiently for 2012 to flush the rest of those taking up space in Washington.

btk

As I recall on another thread one poster claimed that oil stats were exaggerated and that oil fields have been depleted worldwide (included domestic) yet story after story speaks to the issue of total independence if we begin oil and natural gas drilling. Meantime Nero continues to fiddle. Contrary to the Mayan calendar I believe 2012 with be a rebirth. If only the birthers come through we wouldn't have to wait as long. Go Trump!

Wouldn't opening new and drilling in our own fields create jobs here?

(The reference to Nero that was in another post seems very fitting.)

Personally, I think our path to energy independence lies in Montana and Alaska. Coal in Montana to be turned into liquid fuels by the Fischer-Tropsch process and methan-hydrate fields in Alaska that were described as "several Saudi Arabias".

It would help our balance of trade, produce jobs domestically and we could levy reasonable taxes and leases to fund the next generation of renewable energy sources.

It really makes you wonder what the true objectives of this President and his Administration are in this. It certainly doesn't seem to me that he has the best interests of our country or it's citizens in mind

This president and his willing administration are not pro-America pure and simple. Obama has an axe to grind and he's using the office to knock American down a peg or two. He's a one term president who knows he only has 4 years to put us on a crash course as quickly as he can.

It's so OBVIOUS he's doing this on purpose.

Originally Posted by dklassen

This president and his willing administration are not pro-America pure and simple. Obama has an axe to grind and he's using the office to knock American down a peg or two. He's a one term president who knows he only has 4 years to put us on a crash course as quickly as he can.

It's so OBVIOUS he's doing this on purpose.

It hard to dispute that fact that our nation has gone in economic free fall since he became president.

The same people who rightfully castigated former President Bush for running up a record 3.2 Trillion Dollars in debt in his 8 years in office (if I remember my numbers), have no problem with Obama adding 4.4 Trillion Dollars, or so, to the debt in 2 short years.

The new CBO number show that the debt is being downplayed and will actually grow to 20 Trillion dollars by 2020. As we all know by history, this is probably still a low number.

I would love to post articles by the nations leading publications, but they have no interest in this story it seems. I do have the CBO's own report, though.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/112xx/doc...Chapter1.shtml