It's us or them
Cuba has contracted it's buddy China(formerly known as Red China before it started making all our products) to begin drilling off it's coast. This is part of the same oil field that the U.S. energy companies have been lusting after for the last 2 decades. So who gets it first? It would be nice to still be able to gaze westward into the sunset off our coast and see nothing but the setting sun instead of the lights from oil platforms as in the case of the Texas coast. But we may not be able to actually get to the coast to watch the sunset.
I read that China's energy needs are growing so fast that it would need to construct one nuclear power plant per week to keep up with the demand. Now where did you say your kite was made?
Another interesting tidbit is that every time Japan sends an oil tanker to Saudi Arabia, it is filled with fresh water. I wonder what's the cost per barrel of the oil Japan is buying?
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