China Drills for Oil off the Coast of Florida, America Doesn’t

This is something that has bothered me for quite a while. China has a

deal with Cuba and is drilling for oil just off of the Florida coast. Needless to say, the enviro-nazis in America will not let us drill off the coast of Florida.

Whenever I hear a conversation about the high price of oil at work and I hear the liberals I work with blame everything except the fact that we are sitting on our own oil but we aren’t allowed to touch it I start to boil inside. I usually throw out the line about how China is drilling off the coast of Florida but that the environmentalists won’t let us drill there. I am usually met with a blank stare. Naturally these people have no idea what I am talking about.

This scenario happened just yesterday to me. After I mentioned that little tidbit about China I was told that Americans need to turn down their heat in the winter. I was told that Americans feel as if it is their right to turn on every light in the house. i was told that if we just didn’t waste so much energy everything would be alright. Not in those exact words, but the point was made.

I then made the mistake of telling said liberal that America needs more nuclear plants. I figured that I could play to the environmental side of this liberal by mentioning that nuclear energy was actually one of the cleanest forms of energy available. He would have none of that.

That is why I don’t usually debate with liberals at work. That is why I usually keep to myself when it comes to politics. You can’t reason with the unreasonable.

Well somehow I have gone off on a tangent and I need to get back on topic. Where was I? Oh yeah, drilling off the coast of Florida. The point that I was trying to make before I got distracted was that while China is drilling off of our own coast most Americans don’t even seem to know, or care, that this is happening. Thankfully Republicans in the senate today brought it out in the open. Hopefully enough Americans out there who had no clue this was going on will now awaken and ask why. Why can’t we drill for oil on our coast while China can? They probably won’t though, but finally this is getting some mention.

“By prohibiting the United States from taking part in the same type of energy exploration that the Chinese are conducting just miles off our shores, the Democratic Majority on Capitol Hill continues to prove itself complicit in an energy crisis that has saddled American families and small businesses with gas prices that have reached $4.05 per gallon today,” the news release said. “Do congressional Democrats actually believe China has more ingenuity and more concern for the environment than the United States?” Republicans asked.

That last sentence hits the nail on the head. Do the environmentalists actually believe that China is more friendly to the environment then we are? There is already drilling going on there, if we drill it will not impact the environment any more than China is with their lax environmental standards.

Finally this is being brought to light, the problem is that most people don’t even realize what is going on. Most people don’t seem to pay attention other than to bitch about the price of oil. We are sitting on more black gold than we can shake a stick at, but shaking a stick at it is all we are allowed to do. The oil just sits there off the coast of Florida waiting for someone to come and get it but the only ones who get it are the Chinese.