-
Do you have credits to spend? Why not pick up some VOD rentals? Find out how!
Russia to drill for oil off of the Florida Coast
- Thread starter Facetious
- Start date
lurkingdirk
I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
know what it is time for?
hey, is that bay full of pigs?
hey, is that bay full of pigs?
lurkingdirk
I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
dude, don't hold back. tell us how you really feel...
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
It's almost a certainty that we just killed the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/world/asia/07pstan.html
And the economic indicators are starting to go positive at long last. Even Fox News admits it....albeit with a caveat of course:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/02/greenspan-clunkers-cash-effect-economic-rebound-cause/
This story is back-page news to say the least.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/world/asia/07pstan.html
And the economic indicators are starting to go positive at long last. Even Fox News admits it....albeit with a caveat of course:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/02/greenspan-clunkers-cash-effect-economic-rebound-cause/
This story is back-page news to say the least.
Hypergalaxy
Fuck the rest, Freeones is the best!
Skyraider22
The One and Only Big Daddy
Well said:hatsoff:
Hot Mega
I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
:thefinger:
Well, their assets anyway. :crash:
Cont'd
Boy do we (u.s.s.a.) ever look like a horse's ass these days :o
As if Russia really needs to be drilling in our backyard.
Putin must just think the world of Obama.
............NOT ! :helpme:
It would seem like that's Cuba's business so unless those rigs come with missiles, what does that have to do with Obama?? Even as such....it should be pretty clear by now that any of these issues are not a supply problem.
Further, you can't drill to keep up with demand if the world stays on a demand curve.
How great would it be if the Russians and Chinese commit their assets to drilling as the biggest consumer of crude cuts it's demand (which is where we're headed).
Where will world technology be in 8 to 12 years when they start to realize product from this investment??
Friday on my mind
Pain heals, chicks dig scars, Freeones lasts forever
I will point out the other competing economic interest that both the Cubans and just as much Florida who is the one most opposed to drilling off their shores which is "Tourism".
"This prospect has prompted Key West mayor Morgan McPherson to volunteer to go to Havana in the first US-Cuban exchange on the environment.
"I think it's important to create a dialogue," he says.
So far, Mr. McPherson says he has called the State Department who referred him to the Commerce Department who referred him back to the State Department.
"I got the Heisman," he says, referring to the statue of a stiff-armed football player.
However, he says he has heard from the Cubans who think it's a good idea. "Their economy is like our economy – centered around tourism – so they have as much at risk," he says.
But some environmental groups think the risk is too great. "It's hard for me to imagine that drilling that close to Florida's coast won't eventually mean oil spills washing up on Florida's shores," says Cat Lazaroff, a spokeswoman for Defenders of Wildlife in Washington.
Florida's US Senator Bill Nelson (D) and Gov. Charlie Crist (R) had no comment."
States rights is a bitch sometimes ain't it lol.
"This prospect has prompted Key West mayor Morgan McPherson to volunteer to go to Havana in the first US-Cuban exchange on the environment.
"I think it's important to create a dialogue," he says.
So far, Mr. McPherson says he has called the State Department who referred him to the Commerce Department who referred him back to the State Department.
"I got the Heisman," he says, referring to the statue of a stiff-armed football player.
However, he says he has heard from the Cubans who think it's a good idea. "Their economy is like our economy – centered around tourism – so they have as much at risk," he says.
But some environmental groups think the risk is too great. "It's hard for me to imagine that drilling that close to Florida's coast won't eventually mean oil spills washing up on Florida's shores," says Cat Lazaroff, a spokeswoman for Defenders of Wildlife in Washington.
Florida's US Senator Bill Nelson (D) and Gov. Charlie Crist (R) had no comment."
States rights is a bitch sometimes ain't it lol.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
That's a great idea.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
Environmentalist are Socialist Communist. I thought you knew this already?
They deny Christ and worship Gaia and nature.
titsrock
I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
Why aren't we drilling in Cuba?
1. WHo says there's anything in Cuba to bring to market? Maybe this is just a big F U from Castro?
2. I remember Veep Cheney promising that Iraq's oil revenues would "pay for reconstruction." How's that going, by the way?
3. The basic reason is that our country, both Democratic and Republican Administrations has, for the past 40 years, treated Cuba like a second class piece of shit country through a MEANINGLESS POLITICAL EMBARGO. If we had normalized trade relations years ago, maybe it would be our oil companies working with Cuba....
Then again, I think American Companies pretty much treated Cuba like a piece of shit country back in the 40s and 50s. Cuba became the sexual paradise for the American East Coast Elites. Sort of like a combination of Vegas and Bangkok.
The further away Cuba keeps American businesses, the better for Cuba. :dunno:
Hot Mega
I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
Another nothing issue that sounds interesting to wingnuts.
At the heart of the matter, Cuba is allowing some other country to lease areas to explore for oil. :dunno:
Makes one wonder why Cuba hasn't done themselves.
I suspect this is a relatively nice size mistake by the Russians and in a few years we should all know why.
At the heart of the matter, Cuba is allowing some other country to lease areas to explore for oil. :dunno:
Makes one wonder why Cuba hasn't done themselves.
I suspect this is a relatively nice size mistake by the Russians and in a few years we should all know why.
If the USA would have accepted Cuba much earlier, they could have got their oil from there maybe since the 80ies.
And since the Cubans have relied on their russian partners since long years, hey, now them get to get that oil.
Don't blame others :2 cents:
The american dilemma shows in many posts here:
The direct connection from communism to being evil, anti-american, etc. is being pushed into the heads of americans since the McCarthy Era at least and now many, if not most inhabitants of the US of A react like Pavlov's Dog to that word.
There is much to do in South America, where much porcellain has been broken through the CIA activities. The door for Russia might open wide there, too.
Change your way of thinking :thumbsup:
And since the Cubans have relied on their russian partners since long years, hey, now them get to get that oil.
Don't blame others :2 cents:
The american dilemma shows in many posts here:
The direct connection from communism to being evil, anti-american, etc. is being pushed into the heads of americans since the McCarthy Era at least and now many, if not most inhabitants of the US of A react like Pavlov's Dog to that word.
There is much to do in South America, where much porcellain has been broken through the CIA activities. The door for Russia might open wide there, too.
Change your way of thinking :thumbsup:
titsrock
I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
Another nothing issue that sounds interesting to wingnuts.
At the heart of the matter, Cuba is allowing some other country to lease areas to explore for oil. :dunno:
Makes one wonder why Cuba hasn't done themselves.
I suspect this is a relatively nice size mistake by the Russians and in a few years we should all know why.
I'm surprised that any fiscal conservative would have any problem with this whatsoever, to be honest. It was the fiscal conservatives who had no problems with the Dubai Company that wanted to takeover the East Coast ports a couple of years ago....
Conservatives using this issue (Russia drilling for oil near Cuba), lacing it with a dose of FEAR, flogging the Fox airwaves, riling up "the heartland," all to basically resurrect Drill Baby Drill seems very specious to me....
Wainkerr99
Closed Account
Russia supplies a large percentage of Europe with oil - so it isn't just for themselves.
Member2019
1,000 posts to go for my own user title!
At least until ...
Reagan was able to "save the economy" as well by doing the same, injecting a shitload of federal debt secured money into the economy. The big difference is that the US didn't have the debt when he started like it does now.
This is the ass kicking we Americans have been asking for now for 30 years. And damn if it ain't going to hurt.
As far as Russia drilling off of Florida for oil, people forget that just because the US won't do it off its own cost doesn't mean other nations won't. It's international waters, after all.
I know a lot of people forgot such concepts.
At least until the dollar tanks next year because we have so much debt and no one will loan us anything without increases in interest rates, the resulting inflation, etc...
Reagan was able to "save the economy" as well by doing the same, injecting a shitload of federal debt secured money into the economy. The big difference is that the US didn't have the debt when he started like it does now.
This is the ass kicking we Americans have been asking for now for 30 years. And damn if it ain't going to hurt.
As far as Russia drilling off of Florida for oil, people forget that just because the US won't do it off its own cost doesn't mean other nations won't. It's international waters, after all.
I know a lot of people forgot such concepts.
Similar threads
