Here's yet another variation of the GOP-pushed tall tale that China and Cuba are drilling for oil off American shores.

This latest one comes courtesy of GOP Senator John Sununu of New Hampshire, who has trailed Democratic opponent Jeanne Shaheen by wide margins in all the polls, and who by our count is the eighth GOPer to push this silly myth.

Sununu's version: He's dropped the China part from the tale -- now it's the Cubans who are supposedly doing the oil drilling.

Sununu appeared yesterday on the Mark and Danielle show, a conservative talk program based in Dover, New Hampshire, and said the following:

"The Cubans are drilling for oil and gas sixty miles off the coast of Florida, and yet there are people in America that say, 'No, we're not gonna do that, we're not going to explore.'"

This isn't the first time Sununu has spread this story. He told it some three weeks ago, that time including China. But then Dick Cheney retracted the story, and Florida's Republican Senator Mel Martinez took to the Senate floor and thoroughly debunked it.

So now Sununu has simply subtracted China from the story, making Cuba the lone culprit -- but this version isn't true, either.

We've asked his campaign and Senate offices for clarification, but they have not gotten back to us.