Why would the DoE keep silent with regards VP Dick Cheney's comment on offshore drilling?

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VP Cheney addressed the Board of Directors of US Chamber of Commerce... that China is drilling off shore near Key West.
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"China, thanks to a lease issued by Cuba, is drilling for oil just 50 miles from Florida's coast," Rep. George Radanovich, R-Calif., recently wrote in The Modesto Bee in California, arguing for opening waters that have been off limits for 25 years to U.S. companies.
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Jorge Pinon, a senior energy fellow at the University of Miami specializing in Latin America, said Cuba has awarded offshore oil leases, or concessionary blocs, in its offshore waters to six oil companies — N O N E of them Chinese — and soon may announce an agreement with Brazil's state oil company, Petrobras.
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"There is no actual drilling yet. ... There is exploration," said Johanna Mendelson-Forman, a senior fellow on energy and Latin America at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Johana Mendleson said China's oil company, Sinopac, has conducted exploratory drilling on a lease on land in western Cuba, but is N O T involved in the offshore development.
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So what is wrong with address, lieing to a Commissioned Committee
I work in the oilfield. Lile all work sites, we converse and from what I understand, slant drilling is not cheap and offshore, particular in the Guld is not stable which is why Mexico and US abstain from it.
Apperantly the public is gullible when it comes to drilling on shore or off shore. One or ten rigs from a foreign nation in this neck of the woods would not make a good investment. Think about it and think on this: http://www.naturalgas.org/naturalgas/extraction_offshore.asp
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Serioulsy, do you think opur tech has not improved drilling or production.