To: Rivendell I don't mind that Gore is getting beaten up by this, especially since it seems to be striking a chord with the public, but it's not a particularly fair attack. There is no reason why the government should have been in the oil business. They can't run it as well as a modern company. As conservatives, you all know that. Nor does having Oxy run it diminish national security. The oil is going to go to a refinery, just like it did before the government sold it. In a time of emergency, if the military needed it more ...