Oh goody, more benefits for the US from that great Cuban embargo policy.

If we don't drill it out, we have to buy it from other countries.

"Obama surrenders gulf oil to Moscow"

That's quite a stretch. You really think that the US owns the entire Gulf of Mexico, eh? By the way, George H. W. Bush is the one who banned offshore drilling. Obama is keeping the ban going, as George W. Bush ended up doing as well.

It's a little known fact that oil companies already have 5,500 offshore leases that are not being used. 68 billion barrels in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska. But oil companies don't make their record profits by drilling for oil. It's much more profitable to bring in available oil from Canada and overseas, refine it and sell it.

Should of said - "but oil companies don't make their record profits by drilling for oil in the US".

"Posted by homerj"

"My baloney has a first name, it's H-O-M-E-R
My baloney has a second name, it's H-O-M-E-R"

that oil companies already have 5,500 offshore leases that are not being used.
#3 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar

radical environmental concerns

Yeah right it is radical to be concerned about pollution and oil spills.

This article is so slanted it will give you a crick in the neck. Using the word "surrender" is so inflammatory as to make this newspaper beyond the pale of being considered to have an intellectually honest capability. It must be fun to work in the PR departments of the government and figure out ways to respond to editorial attacks like this.

......if it's in Cuban terratorial waters, then we don't have the rights to them anyways, whether Russia drills there or not......

......it's not called the Gulf of Mexico for nothing, most of it just ain't ours.......

There should be a special $1-per-gallon tax levied on the state of Florida. California too. If they want to ban offshore drilling off their coast, it should come with a price tag.

Suits me either way. If I have to buy gas indirectly from the Russians, so be it.