The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore oil drilling on the outer continental shelf until 2012 or beyond. Meanwhile, Russia is making a bold strategic leap to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. While the United States attempts to shift gears to alternative fuels to battle the purported evils of carbon emissions, Russia will erect oil derricks off the Cuban coast.

Offshore oil production makes economic sense. It creates jobs and helps fulfill America's vast energy needs. It contributes to the gross domestic product and does not increase the trade deficit. Higher oil supply helps keep a lid on rising prices, and greater American production gives the United States more influence over the global market.

Drilling is also wildly popular with the public. A Pew Research Center poll from February showed 63 percent support for offshore drilling for oil and natural gas. Americans understand the fundamental points: The oil is there, and we need it. If we don't drill it out, we have to buy it from other countries. Last year, the U.S. government even helped Brazil underwrite offshore drilling in the Tupi oil field near Rio de Janeiro. The current price of oil makes drilling economically feasible, so why not let the private sector go ahead and get our oil?

The Obama administration, however, views energy policy through green eyeshades. Every aspect of its approach to energy is subordinated to radical environmental concerns. This unprecedented lack of balance is placing offshore oil resources off-limits. The O Force would prefer the country shift its energy production to alternative sources, such as nuclear, solar and wind power. In theory, there's nothing wrong with that, in the long run, assuming technology can catch up to demand. But we have not yet reached the green utopia, we won't get there anytime soon, and America needs more oil now.

Russia more sensibly views energy primarily as a strategic resource. Energy is critical to Russia's economy, as fuel and as a source of profit through export. Russia also has used energy as a coercive diplomatic tool, shutting off natural gas piped to Eastern Europe in the middle of winter to make a point about how dependent the countries are that do business with the Russians.

Now Russia is using oil exploration to establish a new presence in the Western Hemisphere. It recently concluded four contracts securing oil-exploration rights in Cuba's economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. A Russian-Cuban joint partnership will exploit oil found in the deep waters of the Gulf.

Cuba has rights to the area in which drilling will be conducted under an agreement the Carter administration recognized. From Russia's perspective, this is another way to gain leverage inside what traditionally has been America's sphere of influence. It may not be as dramatic as the Soviet Union attempting to use Cuba as a missile platform, but in the energy wars, the message is the same. Russia is projecting power into the Western Hemisphere while the United States retreats. The world will not tolerate a superpower that acts like a sidekick much longer

if everyone else can do it, why don't the companies here say " fuck off, we're gonna do it anyway"?

booyaah wrote:

if everyone else can do it, why don't the companies here say " fuck off, we're gonna do it anyway"?

Just show up at one of these public hearings on drilling where the enviro wackos are present, take down their license plate numbers from their micro cars, get their addresses and start hunting them down.

Americans have been fat and happy for to long and lost a sense of what it means to be Americans. They will only wake up now only after their backs are against a wall.

After Sunday I don't know how much more against the wall they can be without lashing out.

It's all tied together health care and every other issue, the radical leftist show up, the regular Joes goes to work and thinks to him or her self what could I do?

Well they will quickly find out when they don't have fucking JOB anymore now wont they?

Every move of Obama cries "Stupid!" out loud ... actually he cannot be that stupid, he's just systematically ruining America.

booyaah wrote:

if everyone else can do it, why don't the companies here say " fuck off, we're gonna do it anyway"?

That's a good question. All they need to do is fund a new company, which will not be based in the US, but be headquartered in a third state, e.g. Chile or Honduras, and let the drilling start. Officially they will have little to do with the new company, but unofficially they will be the major share holders and provide all the know-how and man-power to it.

where are the environuts now? are they protesting the soviets. no, it is only our economy they want to fuck up.

lboru wrote:

where are the environuts now? are they protesting the soviets. no, it is only our economy they want to fuck up.

Funny how they don't protest that Britain, Norway, Denmark and Holland all have offshore oil drilling. Funny they don't protest that the Frogs generate 4X the percentage of their electricity from Nuclear Power Plants as America does. Funny they don't protest that the Swedes sequester their nuclear waste underground. No No No. It is just America which must slit its own throat economically.

Remember, I fish the Gulf of Mexico....


... I will find out what rigs they have and ummMMM - fish around it amd see what happens

Fuck Barack Hussein Obama!

If they drill in USA territorial waters their rigs should be confiscated.

This Marxist Administration and the Marxist Comrade Obamass need to be removed from Office by force if necessary! Obamass is one Worthless Excuse of a Human Being and Deserves Only the Shit in the Hair of my Ass!

Fuck Obama with a Pigs Dick!

No he didnt. I called a friend who works the rigs off Texas. They are Buying it according to him.... and not that much.

Open Florida to Exploration.

And just to let you know, If I am ever offshore and see something happening I WILL investigate. After all, They are drilling in My Front yard, where I work. They fuck up, there done.

I can be a very specific as a enviro-nazi for My country's cause...

LMAO wrote:

Open Florida to Exploration.

And just to let you know, If I am ever offshore and see something happening I WILL investigate. After all, They are drilling in My Front yard, where I work. They fuck up, there done.

I can be a very specific as a enviro-nazi for My country's cause...

I and the vast majority of other Floridians WANT to drill our oil off of our coast. We know we have oil even though the eco-nazis won't let the oil companies do a complete survey. There were a few wells off of Florida they had capped in the 70's. We also know there is an oil field off the coast of Pensacola though nobody knows just how big it is. It would mean lots of good jobs and lots of additional tax revenue for our state. Of course, the Gaia Worshippers can't let that happen! Nevermind the fact that Cuba can drill within 45 miles of our coast so if they spill it its going to wash up on our shores anyway.....