{"id":32,"date":"2008-08-24T20:57:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T20:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-08-24T20:57:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T20:57:45","slug":"question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Question&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past month of so, I have been hearing stories about China drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba (therefore off the coast of Florida).&nbsp; While I have not been able to totally substantiate these stories, I have come up with some information. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/askfactcheck\/are_the_chinese_drilling_off_the_coast.html\">factcheck.org<\/a>&nbsp;there is an article on this subject.&nbsp; This is what is stated:&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">&#8220;Cuba has leased <em>exploration<\/em> blocks to foreign companies for areas as close as 60 miles off Florida&#8217;s southern coast. A 2006 <em>New York Times<\/em> <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/09\/washington\/09drill.html?_r=2&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\"><font color=\"#023f7e\" size=\"3\">article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"> said China was one of the countries that had negotiated an offshore lease. But experts quoted recently by The Associated Press say none of the companies involved are Chinese and all are only allowed to explore for now, not drill in the region. Another exploration deal was <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Energy_Resources\/2008\/01\/16\/Analysis_Brazil_Cuba_sign_oil_pact\/UPI-53491200507730\/\"><font color=\"#023f7e\" size=\"3\">announced<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"> between Brazil&#8217;s state oil company, Petrobras, and Cuba. The deal would allow Petrobras to explore in Cuba&#8217;s offshore territories in the Gulf of Mexico, with a potential drilling start-date in two years.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">I have two questions.&nbsp; First, if other countries are doing the preliminary work for drilling off our coasts, why aren&#8217;t we?&nbsp; Second, who is likely to be more environmentally responsible in drilling off America&#8217;s coast, Americans or other countries (who has the best environmental record on drilling?)?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past month of so, I have been hearing stories about China drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba (therefore off the coast of Florida).&nbsp; While I have not been able to totally substantiate these stories, I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}