You information is in error on two points. One, Cuba's territorial waters are not part of what is inside our 200 mile limit.
Two, please read the following, link included for the full article.
Cheney's false comment on oil drilling attacked
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
Vice President Dick Cheney's office acknowledged on Thursday that he was mistaken when he asserted that China, at Cuba's behest, is drilling for oil in waters 60 miles from the Florida coast.
In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Cheney said on Wednesday that waters in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, long off limits to oil companies, should be opened to drilling because China is already there pumping oil.
"Oil is being drilled right now 60 miles off the coast of Florida," the vice president said. "We're not doing it, the Chinese are, in cooperation with the Cuban government. Even the communists have figured out that a good answer to high prices is more supply."
He cited his source as columnist George Will, who last week wrote: "Drilling is under way 60 miles off Florida. The drilling is being done by China, in cooperation with Cuba, which is drilling closer to South Florida than U.S. companies are."
Congressional Democrats pounced on the vice president's remarks and were backed up by
independent energy experts, who called the assertion hyperbole at best and a falsehood at worst.
Cheney's office said in a statement to The Associated Press that the vice president had erred.
"It is our understanding that, although Cuba has leased out exploration blocks 60 miles off the coast of southern Florida, which is closer than American firms are allowed to operate in that area, no Chinese firm is drilling there," according to the statement.
Link:
http://www.kansascity.com/445/story/661427.html
One last point: Posting three links to articles that all contain the same error doesn't work that well. Three wrongs don't make a right, even if the three wrongs are one and the same.
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