By Jamie Douglas
American Oil companies, with the aid of the U.S. government, have been circling the globe like vultures since the dawn of the motorized society, in search of that black gold, crude oil.
One need only look at the damages done in the jungles of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia, as well as all other locations where crude has been extracted, with the subsequent ecological disasters left behind. Never mind the Santa Barbara catastrophe, the Exxon Valdez, and more recently the Gulf of Mexico disaster, where they are all so busy trying to blame each other that the victims are overlooked and abandoned by Big Soil.
Now enter Cuba, the small island nation just south of the Florida Straits, which has the potential to become an oil-exporting nation if prognostications of the size of the deposits sitting offshore are to be believed. The deposits have the potential to earn sizeable amounts of money for the communist nation that has so long been a thorn in the side of the U.S., reducing Cuba’s reliance on the subsidized oil coming its way from crazy old Uncle Cesar from Venezuela.