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End embargo before China taps oil 45 miles off U.S. coast
, The Billings Gazette ^
| July 16, 2009
| MARK J. PERRY
Posted on 07/16/2009 10:22:50 PM PDT by george76
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:22:50 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
Make Cuber the 58th state!
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:24:13 PM PDT
by
rahbert
("...but Rush....but Rush...")
To: george76
Another good reason to end the embargo.
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:29:45 PM PDT
by
trumandogz
(The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
To: george76
And then can we end the embargo on ANWR?
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:32:06 PM PDT
by
eclecticEel
(The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
To: rahbert
I’m a little slow right now, but 51-57??
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:32:34 PM PDT
by
dynamitehack
(Are you serious?!?!?)
To: george76
They will be drilling OUR OIL, they have mighty big straws nowadays.
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:35:01 PM PDT
by
runninglips
(It was just time for this to come to a head.....hope we wake up soon)
To: george76
I wonder which Mark Perry this is? There was a far-left writer for the various “City Papers” many years ago, including DC.
Does anyone know who this guy is?
To: george76
Is this guy logically deficient? We can drill in areas adjacent and tap the same oil, I would think. Oil people, tell me I'm wrong.
Oh yeah, dems won't let us.
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:44:05 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
To: george76
Absent some sort of evidence, comparisons with Cantarell are nonsense. That particular field is unique or nearly so in terms of how the geologists believe it originated.
There is some production in Cuba. A bonanza offshore? Let it play out.
BTW, I am in no way in favor of the Florida ban. It is important to recognize however that there is little onshore production in Florida. Ergo, unless there is something unique occurring offshore, don't count your barrels before they hatch.
One last comment: Parts of the panhandle are very prospective. If a big field is going to found in Florida, maybe it will be a pure wildcat, but likely more it will be found in under explored extension ["on trend"] of places where oil and gas are known to exist.Once again: Cantarell? ????
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:47:49 PM PDT
by
R W Reactionairy
("Everyone is entitled to their own opinion ... but not to their own facts" Daniel Patrick Moynihan)
To: Eagles6
So when they have a oil mishap and crude starts washing ashore in Florida killing all those pink flamingos then what?
To: runninglips
They’ll drink our milk shake.
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:49:02 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
To: guitarplayer1953
So when they have a oil mishap and crude starts washing ashore in Florida killing all those pink flamingos then what? That will be a GOOD mishap, because it will be a communist mishap. At least according to the Democrats.
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:50:11 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
To: runninglips
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:51:15 PM PDT
by
pepperhead
(Kennedys float, Mary Jos don't)
To: george76
Hello? Everybody is forgetting:
We don't want oil.
When you drive your car it makes Mother Earth cry.
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:51:46 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
To: guitarplayer1953
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:52:21 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
To: Eagles6
Or if nothing happens and we can't see the oil derricks from the Florida coast beach would that not be a good argument of why not us to taping into that sweet crude?
To: guitarplayer1953
Apparently so. Just ask teddy “ the swimmer kennedy” or john effin’ kerry about wind farms off their beach house coasts.
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posted on
07/16/2009 11:05:21 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
To: george76
The dems put our national security interests on energy independence in the grave last year.
The Chinese are the world's capitalists now. We are on our way to becoming a failed socialist state consigned to the dustbin of history.
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posted on
07/16/2009 11:33:39 PM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: george76
Well then, good for China and Cuba.
The nitwit assh@ts we have here making energy policy think if we can’t exploit our own resources, then nobody can.
Oil, being a fungible commodity, can then be sold back to us,
or used in their own countries.
We are now governed by vile, pernicious degenerates.
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posted on
07/16/2009 11:36:26 PM PDT
by
gigster
To: george76
[Article]
But Cuba's state oil company, Cubapetroleo, recently said the undersea geology was "very similar" to Mexico's giant Cantarell oil field in the Bay of Campeche..... The Cubans couldn't know that unless they'd drilled the structure.
Cantarell is almost unique in the world, so it's fairly rash to say that whatever they're drilling in the Cuban OCS is "very similar".
Cantarell is an enormous mass-flow or slump deposit (submarine landslide) of carbonate shelf sediments mobilized by the Chicxulub bolide when it struck the Yucatan shelf in about 100'-300' of water (sea levels were higher than now), ending the Cretaceous Period and the Mesozoic Era.
Cuba's close enough that the Chicxulub (pron. "chick-shoo-loob") impactor could have mobilized the Cuban shelf-edge deposits in similar manner, so it's not totally outside the realm of possibility -- but for them to make the claim means that they would have to possess a very strong time-tie of the Cuban slump event to either the Chicxulub crater or the Cantarell debris flow.
If the Cubans are right and their play works, or even if it works for the wrong reasons (hell, let's not be picky), it would be a tremendous benefit for them and for the whole world economy, which could use some really big discoveries in the next 10 years. It would benefit the U.S. as well, even if nary a drop were sold into U.S. markets. It would go into world markets, and all would benefit. Now, if the Left manages to find a way to politicize world markets and screw everything up, then it doesn't matter how well the geologists or engineers or anyone anywhere does his job -- you can't stop political Leftists from screwing up everything they touch.
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