And in the future, pigs may fly.

Therefore Pigs fly with jet packs.

I saw Laura Flanders on CNN, pretty early in the AM, maybe Tuesday. She was debating Joe somebody, and she refered to the oil companies’ “stockpiling leases”. The better term is “hoarding”, sounds more sinister.

BTW, there are no “Bobs” here, Roberts is a surname.

And that’s why this new Republican mantra about “Drill Now… Pay Less” is so dishonest. It’s been said more than once here that even if the US did open up ANWAR today, it would be most likely 10 years before any oil came out of the endeavor.

Same w/ drilling off the US coasts. I read about a deep sea well 2 days ago that had to almost 7 miles down to reach its target. It might have been for natural gas.

Then why the fcuk are mineral rights given to the oil companies simply so they can sell it for private profit????

Actually, the Government doesn’t GIVE the mineral rights to the oil companies; they are retained by the US and are LEASED to the companies to explore and possibly produce. If it is productive, the US is paid a royalty for that production, (usually 7 to 12%).

This is just like if you, as a private citizen own mineral rights, you do the same thing.

It would only be explored and produced by our governement, if we had a national oil company.

Seven foreign companies have signed exploration agreements with Cuban state oil company CUPET for 28 of the 59 blocks available in the deep Gulf of Mexico waters of Cuba’s economic exclusion zone fronting the United States.
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Unfortunately for both Rudi and Themis, NONE of the counties listed in the article Themis references appear to be China… hmmm…

However, there is this little nugget buried in the details…

“Garcia said U.S. companies were interested in exploration, but were barred under trade sanctions enforced in 1962 against the island’s Communist government.”

HAH!!! That’ll show them Commie basids… uh.. well, mebbe…

Hmmm… let me think about that.

Themis??? Any ideas here?

Don’t natural resources belong to the American people?

Then why the fcuk are mineral rights given to the oil companies simply so they can sell it for private profit????

So Giuliani can predict the future now? I wonder if he predicted the demise of his party?

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I wonder why these countries haven’t been brought into the conversation,anyone have any ideas why?

Because Republicans are liars. As such, they only want to raise alarms about one of the only countries that isn’t drilling in the Gulf.

This goes along with their claims that oil companies are being prevented from drilling offshore when they have gigantic offshore leases that aren’t being used.

The Republicans have to lie, otherwise they have nothing to talk about.

How would you feel if the US were one of the concession partners with Cuba? We could be if we just lifted our own self-imposed sanctions. But then the Big Money Cuban refugee folks in Miami would have a hissy-fit and stop funding the GOP.

Sometimes, you bring on your own problems, don’tcha?

Because they ain’t scary like BRRR-CHINA, THE YELLOW PERIL-BRRR.

So this is where you’ve gone to hide? We were hoping you’d actually defend your talking points on the open thread, but now you have scuttled off again.

And you wonder why people confuse you with Mr P.