Republicans Use Cuban Threat As Excuse for Offshore Oil Drilling
“Red China should not be left to drill for oil within spitting distance of our shores without competition from U.S. industries,” says Idaho’s right wing Republican Senator Larry Craig.
It’s sad, but true. Republican politicians in the US Congress are now using a combination of the ancient fear of Communism and a strange desire to copy what the Communists are doing in order to promote oil drilling along the coasts of the United States of America.
They didn’t seem to learn from Hurricane Katrina last year, which wrecked oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and sent oil slicks to scum up large sections of the Gulf Coast of the United States. But then again, “learn from” and “Hurricane Katrina” are two phrases that Republicans never seem to be able to piece together.
Cuba is awarding contracts to companies from China and India to come and drill oil off its coastline, and so the Republicans seem to think that the United States should do what Communist Cuba and China are doing, but to do it one better. The Republicans are not just recommending that we begin drilling for oil in the Hurricane Alley between Florida and Cuba, but they’re trying to place big oil rigs all up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as well, to fuel the gas guzzling SUV habit of the American consumer.
If this oily threat bothers you, sign the petition by the Sierra Club to oppose additional oil drilling in America’s coastal waters.
