Good News: Oil Drilling Off Florida Begins Nov. 1st. Bad News: It’s in Cuba

Steve Maley RedState 9/10/2011

While it’s been the subject of rumor, gossip and misinformation for the last several years, this time it’s real: drilling off the north shore of Cuba is scheduled to begin November 1. Six wells are planned to be drilled with this rig by the various international companies who own exploration rights […]

Allen West on Energy and Drilling

AllenWestNation.com via Tell DC Video 3/25/2011

Natural Resources Committee Passes Three Energy Bills to Create Jobs and Lower Gasoline Prices

Carol Greenberg Conservative Outlooks 4/13/2011

From an email from Chairman Hastings (R-WA).

Markup Update #2: Natural Resources Committee Passes Three Energy Bills to Create Jobs and Lower Gasoline Prices

WASHINGTON, DC – The House Natural Resources Committee today passed three energy bills with bipartisan support that are a part of House Republicans’ American […]

Norway, India consortium moving ahead with Cuba oil plans

Repsol says big oil fields possible offshore Cuba PDVSA also cites “great potential” in Cuba blocks Cuba says may have 20 billion barrels offshore

Jeff Franks Reuters 4/5/2011

HAVANA, April 5 (Reuters) – Repsol YPF (REP.MC: Quote) expects to have a Chinese-built drilling rig in Cuban waters by the end of the summer and […]

Senator Questions $2-Billion Loan to Brazil for Offshore Drilling as Domestic Production Languishes

Penny Starr CNSNews.com 3/21/2011

(CNSNews.com) – Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is questioning how the United States has benefited from a $2-billion loan the Export Import Bank of the United States made to a Brazilian oil company for its offshore drilling operations.

How has that loan, made several years ago, helped U.S. companies, the senator asked […]

More jobs Americans won’t do. Unfortunately.

John Hinderaker Power Line 3/19/2011

This, from President Obama’s speech in Rio today, is the latest sign of America’s decline:

In particular, with the new oil finds off Brazil, President Rousseff has said that Brazil wants to be a major supplier of new stable sources of energy, and I’ve told her that the United States […]

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