It didn't pop up in a news article. Or even an op-ed. No, the false claim that China is drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico -- peddled at times by Vice President Dick Cheney and GOP Rep. Mark Kirk -- has now been relegated to the letters to the editor section of the Daily Herald:
Why won't they allow drilling wherever there is oil in our country?
Every industry in the United States uses oil in some form to conduct business.
Cuba is allowing China to drill for oil just 60 miles off the Florida coast. I'm sure that reserve extends into our territory.
This is another disconnect that just doesn't make sense at this time. Our representatives see disconnects in others but never in themselves.
Thankfully, they published a rebuttal from another reader several days later. But why print this hogwash in the first place?
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