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Drill away, but there is only so much oil on this planet and we have probably already used more than half of it. Everyone talks big about alternative energy but there hasn't been any real movement in the area for decades. I guess the plan is to wait until mass starvation before finding something more practicable.
Obama has been trying to do this and guess what he got for his efforts, MORE whining from the right..
SO? I thought the rightie mantra was Drill Baby Drill. You assume they cannot do it any better than the Brits that overlooked safety for profits, or does it mean NOW you are interested in safety first?
If you had read the article (~duh~) you would have seen this:
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"In the event of a disaster we are talking a response time in terms of equipment of four to six weeks as opposed to 36 or 48 hours. This is a serious impediment," warned Lee Hunt, president of the Texas-based International Association of Drilling Contractors.
Yet under the US trade embargo, neither American firms nor the Coast Guard could come to Cuba's assistance or provide much needed equipment such as booms, pumps, skimmers and oil dispersant systems
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