Flabbergasted.
A South American cartoon dictator couldn’t have come up with a better solution.
Give the goobers in the gooberment a chance and they will prove that only they can lose money owning a refinery.
Before we do anything rash like nationalizing refineries, or a government-run single payer health care system, lets see how they do with a government run, single-payer legal system first. :-)
These demokrat clowns are just confirming what we already knew. Their party and Congress are being run by this genius.
If they actually do this, or even continue to suggest it, it may well be time to grab our pitchforks and head to Washington DC. This idea is so dangerous, so destructive, that we should and must be willing to do whatever is necessary to stop it.
In effect, if Obama gets in office, you'll see nationalization of health and energy within the first two years, and the Federal Government essentially directly controlling 51% of the economy. We WILL be a Communist nation at that point, and the takeover will be complete.
The Central Government will be directly responsible for over half our GDP - one of every two dollars spent in this nation - effectively controlling the majority of this land, and you can bet the rules will be quickly gamed to keep the Donks in perpetual party as the Central Party.
Of course, a few FReepers can be smug in their knowledge that they "stuck to their principles" and didn't vote for McCain. Thank you, comrades!
. Lets see how fast the refineries register their headquaters in another country with their functional equipment, leaving the old stuff here. Halliburton moved to Dubai because of the RATs. They have to leave on those great big freighter ships.
“They (Republicans) have a one-trick pony approach.”
Yeah, it is called saving this country. Also nationalizing the refineries will not produce another drop of oil. These people are complete morons.
Dear Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY),
Feel free to have the government raise the capital by means other than taxation/fees and use that money to build as many refineries as possible. Buy your oil on the open market, refine it, then sell it at your own stations. You may not subsidize the costs nor ignore laws, environmental or otherwise, that constrain private companies. Also, you may not pass laws that benefit the government unless those laws also benefit private businesses.
You give that a try and let us know how it works out. Compete in a free market and see just how fast private enterprise kicks your lazy bureaucratic asses. Stupid twit.
Also, if your “business” fails, we reserve the right to exile you and anyone involved to whatever socialist nirvana (cuba, n korea, venezuela) will take you.
Bad. Very bad. This is nothing more than a ploy to usurp more power and control over the people. If the government has control over the flow of oil, who is to say that it cannot use that leverage as a means of control or extortion. This will be the beginning of a soviet-society...a neo-Marxist era
Oh yeah, government running the refinieries is really going to get things straightened out. Always does. Look at the DMV. Your local metro system? Health Care? Border control?
The refineries are NOT the problem. They are running at near capacity. We are importing gasoline as well as oil because we can’t refine enough oil. We need more refineries, and we need to reduce the number of fuel blends from 20+ to 2 or 3.
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of industries.”
— Thomas Jefferson, 1824
whatta they think they are?
stalin or hitler?
It is time!