You would have to be a damn moron (enter obama and the democrats) to prefer Cuba or China or Russia to be drilling off of Cuba (several hundred miles closer to Florida than the BP well disaster) -instead of the US.

   The US should trade with Cuba, -the US should be the hell buying all the leases to drill in the Gulf in Cuban waters. That would have been a good use of part of the Obama stimulus package of 1,000,000,000,000 for Obama re-distribution of wealth -mainly to be lost in the Obama narcissistic gov bureaucracy.
   All of this bs over who said what -as to who and when drilling takes place or has taken place -will not change foreign countries from drilling in the Gulf and the Arctic, -the dems are really good at being smart ass jerks, -while making Americans pay 10 to 50% more for energy the US buys from foreign countries.
   The asshole dems starting with the master thug Obama should have to pay 50x the rest of America that live in oil producing or natural gas producing states. These damn jerks use the oil/natural gas that gets piped to their states from the Gulf –without even knowing where it comes from, -and then -wants to ban drilling in the Gulf.  or better yet, just cut off their electricity 2 or 3 days/week, -only then would a democrat realize the error of their ignorance and lying.
   But that is the obama mission:  Always new chaos and division created each and every day. The main mission of using racial hate and prejudice to open the Mexican border to assure the obama dictatorship and end of America.
   There is your truth, -deal with it.       JayR