We need to go ahead and drill the Florida Straight before the Cubans and
the Chinese steal _our_ oil.
The "Strategic Petroleum Reserve" (provided the Republicans haven't stolen
it all) contains about $8B in solid backing for a venture that would
nationalize the oil located off the shores of Florida. The point is that
this oil will be sucked out by the Cubans and the Chinese with a lot less
care about the environment than we would insist upon. There is also the
possibility that we would just buy out the current operation and "reform"
it. Why not employ the Chinese in the actual drilling and such. Just
__**CONTRACT**__ that labor. Or we could __**CONTRACT**__ Shell or
Chevron or whoever... We be globalized.
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"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of society but the people themselves; and
if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
education." - Thomas Jefferson
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