Damned if you do, Damned if you don't. Teabaggers upset about

[Night Crawler]

Drilling in the Gulf because Obama is doing it this time and not some GOP cronies.

All that Blah blah blah about Drill baby drill and some reichwingers are bitching about this...

Petrobras gets permit for U.S. deep waters
Published: March. 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM

WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- Washington has given Petrobras America Inc. permission to start oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, a regulator said.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement gave Petrobras approval to use a floating production storage offloading facility at its Cascade-Chinook project in the Gulf of Mexico.

The approval marks the first time FPSO technology will be used in U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

The oil and gas project is about 165 miles off the coast of Louisiana in 8,200 feet of water. The FPSO has a production capacity of 80,000 barrels of oil and 16 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.

So it's ok to let a foreign company like BP drill in the Gulf but not Brazil owned Petrobras? And all because of some conspiracy that the "Evil George Soros" invested in the company.

It's new technology, what could go wrong?





Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2011/03/18/Petrobras-gets-permit-for-US-deep-waters/UPI-87891300453143/#ixzz1HTnT2LR4