Posted on 10/14/2012 2:00:18 AM PDT by pansgold
TO THE HONORABLE CONGRESSMAN DEVIN NUNES
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Dear Sir,
As your constituent and as a registered voting Republican I am sending you this letter to confirm the telephone call I made to your Washington D.C. office last week.
I expressed concern and even anger at the high price of gasoline and demanded that the congress in the interest of national security, nationalize all oil refining in the United States and use Army reservists to take-over and run them. Refining should be under the direct control of the government and in particular, the Army Corp of Engineers.
The Army Corp of Engineers already controls 100% of national hydroelectric energy produced by control of dams and waterways.
I believe the government should now control oil and regulate the value thereof much as it does the price of gold.
Nationalization of oil and gas refineries will have a number of desired effects.
1.) Reduce the price of gasoline and diesel fuel needed to move products. 2.) Reduce the price of store products with reduced transportation costs. 3.) Provide a standard fuel grade for all 50 states. 4.) Regulate the amount of exported oil and fuel.
By standardizing fuel grades nationally, fuels can now be transported interstate without blend restrictions or seasonal state adjustments.
Any state wishing to tinker with the fuel blend must then do so at their own cost and have their own way to blend and distribute their own product. Congress should make a law declaring no state shall import or export across their state line any modified fuel. In short, California couldn’t supply Los Angeles, much more the entire state with blended fuel. That’s their states right and let the voters deal with those in state government for fuel shortages and high prices.
The government now controls and regulates offshore oil leasing, all oil drilling on federal lands and waters, nuclear energy, hydroelectric energy, fuel emission standards, fuel mileage standards, interstate pipeline construction, and import and export tariffs.
It’s time the government stops price gouging at the pumps by greedy refineries that create artificial shortages at the pump by shutting down refineries and switching seasonal blends while continuing to sell fuel to foreign countries.
In closing, we here in Tulare County that live on a fixed income can no longer afford the crushing effect of high gasoline prices.
I needn’t remind you congressman, the last time fuel costs were this high, oil was $147.00 a barrel. It is now at $92.00 per barrel yet gasoline is over $6.00 per gallon in Los Angeles County and near $5.00 per gallon in Springville, California.
That’s greed. That’s gouging. That’s price fixing. That’s crime and someone should be jailed for it.
Thanks for your time Congressman Nunes.
Sincerely,
Name and address withheld
Did you get lost on your way to DU?
Just what we all need. A comic. Your solution is .... insert drum roll here ....
The best way to create shortages, let the Gov’t take over.
The government already HAS taken over.
Try and build a refinery or update one without the permission of the government and the EPA
Just try and build a pipeline or drill on federal land or waterways.
Try and build a refinery or update one without the permission of the government and the EPA
Exactly!
...and so the solution is nationalization.
Some how I’m missing a really important point.
From my standpoint the more CA seniors suffer from high fuel prices the better. They should be going after the CA Assembly to rectify the vast majority of stupidity in the land of fruit and nuts.
Love your post. This person is a knucklehead.
That’s right. In a Representative Republic, the last thing anyone wants to see is a voter contacting their Representative.
Seig Heil
Again, it has been nationalized already.
Who controls the national oil reserve? Pipeline construction? refinery construction and modernization? Environmental impact studies? All hydroelectric energy production in the U.S.? Nuclear plant conctruction? Oil leasing?
That’s right... the national government.
Oh... I forgot emission and fuel milage standards...
mileage
Refiners want to be near the water, but now it's practically impossible for them to find a place to build. Refineries are high on the list of least-wanted industrial sites. This report from the California Energy Commission notes that even though 10 refineries representing 20 percent of the state's refining capacity were closed between 1985 and 1995, "it is unlikely that new refineries will be built in California." Why? Locals are concerned about the environmental impact of refineries, their contribution to smog, their traffic of giant trucks carrying hazardous materials, and the potential for devastating leaks in event of an earthquake." Taken from a Slate article published in 2004.
The federal government has all but taken over health care which is about 15% of our economy and the federal government still retains a significant chunk of General Motors and you now propose that the federal government take the oil industry. What you are proposing would bring us even closer to communism (government ownership of the means of production) and you consider yourself a conservative?
What a scary letter.
Nationalizing the oil industry will make things much worse.
“That’s right... the national government”.
Thanks for making my point.
The PROBLEM is the national government!
The only solution IMHO is State government taking back the power they gave to the federal government, or the power the federal government usurped from the states.
Asking Congress to finish the job of nationalization having caused the problem in the first place, is IMHO insanity.
It's the ONLY way to end this ridiculous state seasonal/custom blending by idiots like Cali's ARB.
Remember those fools mandated that MTBE, a known water soluable cancer causing agent oxygenate be added to all Calistan gasoline?
That's the same poison that blows out tailpipes of cars passing through farmlands and settles on the fields, then leaches into the soil contaminating crops and polluting the water tables.
Let me guess...
and the state gets to blend fuel for seasonal use and to their standards for emmissions even if it means poisioning all of us here with MTBE.
I think that’s what isn’t working now... IMHO.
You’re on drugs.
HHC’s husband.
They sit back and laugh at the fools at the pump that pay what they demand for gas.
Remember oil was $147.00 per barrel and prices were lower than they are now when it's at $92.00
Who's kidding whom?
The solution is deregulation!
Dude, You really need the /Sarc tag or someone will think that you are serious.
The price system operates to keep supplies coming.
The answer is LESS government, not more!
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