Mike Roberts wrote:
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> If the United States decided to drill for oil 50 miles off the coast of
> China, we would be embroiled in WWIII overnight. Thanks to wacko
> environmentalist Congressmen and Senators using the Environmental
> Protection Agency [EPA] to stymie drilling along the continental shelf
> of the United States, oil that rightfully belongs to American oil
> companies is now being drilled by Canada, Spain and Cuba—with help from
> both China and India. With only modest energy needs and no drilling
> expertise or money, Cuba's government-owned oil cor****ation,
> CubaPetroleo—with money and expertise from China's national oil company,
> Sinopec—is now "exercising its option" in the Straits of Florida. China,
> according to re****ts, is slant drilling. Slant drilling is what oil
> companies do when the oil they are trying to tap is on someone else's
> property. China will try to tap into reserves on the "American-side" of
> the Florida Straits that legally belongs to the United States in a
> 2-year renewable treaty negotiated with Cuba and signed by
> then-President Jimmy Carter in 1977.
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