"Experts say US ill prepared for oil spill off Cuba."
So says a headline on an Associated Press story the other day, summarizing comments at a congressional subcommittee hearing near Miami Beach.
The issue at hand was what to do in the event of an accident at the Spanish drilling site off the communist island nation.
The conference served to raise awareness of what we already knew — that the U.S. is left to observe and guess rather than participate in safety planning except on our own shores.
Then again, perils would exist whether the rig were American or foreign.
It's a dangerous proposition, as we learned off Louisiana.
Proposed legislation aimed at holding Spain, Cuba and their partner nations accountable play a role in the U.S. response.
Still, there is no replacement for first-hand information. The Obama administration and anyone else with private- or public-sector leverage ought to keep trying to bring the U.S. to the oversight table.
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Jarvis writes:
If the USA had any gonads, and considering how weak the Russians have been on various occasions since the fall of the USSR (1989), the USA would have taken down Cuba a long time ago, and we would should be pumping our own oil out of that area. The Chinese don't care if our reefs end up destroyed. They don't even care if Cuba is destroyed. It is just a base for them to get oil that runs under America. We are getting robbed.
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