They’re so damn smart, then why don’t they run it themselves?......................
“Nationalizing” (”Statising?”) the refineries would be the next step on the road to becoming Columbia-—and California is good enough at embracing insanity that if they took that step they would arrive there within about 10 years.
Maybe Oregon (my home state) and Washington would see what is going on, wise up, and step back from the abyss, but I wouldn’t count on it
Sacramento, CA (AP) 9/26/2025 Huge explosion at California refinery two months after California takes over operations.
> They’re so damn smart, then why don’t they run it themselves? <
Right. And ask Venezuela’s President Maduro to send up a few advisers. They have experience in this sort of thing.
P.S. to Newsom: Be sure to fire all the technicians currently on the job. You don’t need their defeatist attitudes. Replace them with socialist college kids. Liberal arts majors, preferably.
That is probably the intent, after failing to find a buyer.
Time for Directive 10-289.
“They’re so damn smart, then why don’t they run it themselves?......................”
I would love to see it. Watch efficiency plummet and prices soar.
Nigeria had two refineries operated by the state. Neither one worked very much. To keep up the illusion that the country was self-sufficient Shell kept a tanker in international waters out of sight for fuel supply. There was a brisk business of lightering fuel from the offshore tanker to the shore. Of course there were no spills with that activity at all. wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
We bought fuel, also called fooel, from one such lightering barge and tug for the drill ship, another story in that which is entertaining to recount but not funny at all then. Here is just part of that ordeal: Remember the tramp steamer captain in the white turtle neck sweater in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”? The guy piloting the tug with the barge to deliver our fooel looked just about like that guy, gold tooth and all, but the white sweater was not so tight nor fitted to a similar physique. “We are here sir.” Where is here? “Here at your ship sir.” What ship? “Your ship sir, the “Name Withheld”” They were at another ship more than 100 miles away who gladly took our fooel on board since it was so hard to arrange a delivery. We even got the bill!!!
High times in West Africa and around the world.