The Democrat party leaders in Washington give me gas! Check out this headline from today's news! http://www.foxnews.com/urgent_queue/index.html#a54ef44,2008-06-18
They want to nationalize the oil refineries! We should all be scared! Very Scared that they would even bring it up!
I'll admit that I'm hypersensitive to government interference in business right now because I just finished reading Atlas Shrugged and I am diligently writing a long, long essay on it as I try to organize and reconcile my thoughts. Who is John Galt? If you've read it, you know all that that means!
We have got to stand up and fight any attitude of nationalizing anything...it would be the end of our country as we know it and love it. On principle, I'd rather see oil companies blow-up their refineries then turn them over to the government.
Government run anything is less efficient than private industry. They are wasteful, full of bureaucratic red-tape, prone to corruption, and so on and so forth. If the government controlled our gas supply, prices would not decrease. Oil production would be less and therefore the limited supply would be distributed to the corrupt individuals who deal in dark rooms with the goverment officials controlling the oil supply.
The solution? Cut through the red tape and let American businesses drill for oil, build refineries, and distribute it allowing the laws of supply and demand and competition to dictate market prices.
