I told a liberal colleague that I was supportive of this idea, but only as a proof of concept. They should be allowed to purchase one old refinery and allowed to build one new refinery. After 5 or 10 years, we could then do a study and see whether they ran them better than the oil industry. He didn’t want anything to do with this idea. He knew that they would fail miserably.
Bad idea. Recall that Lenin and Stalin had Moscow looking like Shangri-La for all the American education establishment socialists. The Euro and American "tourists" never saw another part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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