On May 16, 2:48=A0pm, Mike Roberts <M...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> CHINA STARTS OIL DRILLING OFF FLORIDA
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> WHILE AMERICA TWIDDLES THUMBS, CHINESE TAP BILLIONS OF BARRELS
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> By Mike Blair
>
> While Wa****ngton dithers over exploiting oil and gas reserves off the
> coast of Florida, China has seized the op****tunity to gobble up these
> deposits, which run throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and along
> the U.S. Gulf coast.
>
> The Chinese have forged a deal with Cuban leader Fidel Castro to explore
> and tap into massive oil reserves almost within sight of Key West,
> Florida. At the same time, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who
> controls the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere, is making
> deals to sell his country=92s oil to China, oil that is currently coming
> to the United States.
>
> Meanwhile, a new left-wing populist regime in Bolivia has nationalized
> the natural gas industry, threatening to cut off supplies to the United
> States.
>
> SLANT DRILLING
>
> There are new re****ts out circulating that Chinese firms are planning to
> slant drill off the Cuban coast near the Florida Straits, tapping into
> U.S. oil reserves that are estimated at 4.6 billion to 9.3 billion
> barrels. This compares with 4 billion to 10 billion barrels believed to
> be beneath the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, where drilling is held
> up in Congress due to the objections of environmental groups which warn
> of endangering caribou. Permission to drill in the refuge, which experts
> are certain will not present any environmental hazard, has failed by
> just two votes in the Senate.
>
> As Chinese business increases its reach around the world, it is seeking
> oil, which it lacks domestically.
>
> After elections in Mexico in early July, when a new regime hostile to
> Wa****ngton is expected to take power, the United States might be without
> supplies of Mexican crude oil. The United States gets about 40 percent
> of its im****ted oil from Mexico and Venezuela.
>
> China is eager to tap into oil reserves in the Florida Straits and then
> make a deal with Castro to control it. The Chinese have already reopened
> an abandoned Russian oil refinery in Cuba. Much of the gas refined there
> is believed to be destined for Free****t in the Bahamas, where the
> Chinese, through front company Hutchison-Whampoa, has developed a
> massive ****t facility and airfield.
>
> With the refinery reopened and expanded it will also meet the needs of
> Castro.
>
> Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has introduced legislation to ease U.S.
> restrictions that prevent dealing with Cuba to drill in the Florida
> Straits. It is hoped that Florida regulations that prevent U.S. oil
> drilling off the state=92s coasts could also be eased.
>
> The irony is that Chinese drilling could be even more of an
> environmental hazard since China is not as concerned about or equipped
> to deal with any potential ecological disaster as a result of a spill,
> said Craig.
>
> (Issue #22, May 29, 2006)
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If it's in international waters what would like for him to do? Would
you feel better if he nuked China? They're drilling for the oil we
don't have the sense to drill for. Nice try ****ferbrains.
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