| Startlingly enough, it looks as if the
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| | energy needs for about 18 years, or long
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| time will soon arrive when the USA will
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| | enough for all the leaders in the Middle
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| have to play catch-up with Cuba in oil
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| | East who we aren't getting along with
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| exploration. The diminutive and destitute
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| | these days to go the way of leaders
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| communist enclave that serves as Fidel
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| | everywhere who, we determine, are
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| Castro's personal cigar plantation now
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| | irredeemably misguided.
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| realizes that it has enough oil reserves
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| | Naturally, conservation societies have
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| under its coastal waters to prop up its
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| | been galvanized into opposition by the
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| no-go economy for decades and, incapable
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| | mere prospect of an oil bit chomping into
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| of assembling the capacity to out the oil
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| | the emerald waters of our abundantly
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| itself, the island nation has begun to
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| | fishy coastlines in search of the liquid
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| license drilling rights to other
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| | treasure below the reefs.
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| countries, including China, the prospect
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| | As the debate bubbles on, we can only
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| of which alarms us, and Spain, the idea
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| | consider a worst-case, best-case
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| of which invites us to think of tapas.
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| | scenario. Worst case: we do nothing while
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| In wisdom wrought from its neediness, the
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| | foreign companies who don't exactly have
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| resourceful islet has also offered to
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| | the most reverential reputations in
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| license American oil companies.
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| | ecological propriety drill away and, as
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| Expectedly enough, the very prospect of
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| | time allows, send oil spills slithering
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| Cuba scooping oil out of the ocean floor
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| | onto our beaches. Best case: we race to
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| while America has outlawed it for decades
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| | catch up with Cuba and maybe even preempt
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| has enkindled hot debate in Congress
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| | the ill-advised entanglements that might
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| about the present wisdom of our
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| | otherwise drill down into our hemisphere.
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| self-imposed interdiction. The debate has
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| | Since we're actually talking about
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| rapidly blossomed into a gusher partly
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| | drilling in our own backyard pond, we
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| because America has even more proven oil
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| | might also, one hopes, do it in ways that
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| reserves in its coastal waters, no doubt
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| | are less likely to lead to the shameful
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| principally because it has even more
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| | oil blights that fill us all with remorse
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| coastal waters.
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| | and send fish and fowl off to tarry death
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| Persuasively enough in these oil-dear
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| | - derelictions that strange countries in
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| times, there seems to be enough of the
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| | a strange land might less assiduously
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| black gold there to meet all of our
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| | labor to avoid.
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