Solution to gas prices: Nationalization

Comrade Hugo Chavez nationalized his oil industry and what to the Venzuelans get? 12 cent a gallon gas, that's what!

What are we waiting for?

As for the auto industry pain and suffering, it is clear now that private enterprise can no more compete in the car manufacturing market than they could send a rocket to Mars. Projects that large are in the realm of the Government. It takes the combined national resources of a large Government to build cars and we must face that fact square in the face or become the dust bin of history in-so-far as this industry is concerned.

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George Orwell
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But is that price comparable with the value of Venezuelan currency? What does 12 cents equal in US currency? And aren't they Socialist there?

Natalie

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Wickeddoll

Not competing is precisely the goal of the Oil conglomerates. Thats why they shut down refineries, buy out independents and support the invasion of Iraq. Note were not *pumping* much oil out of Iraq but Saddam was. And he quit using the dollar, switching to the Euro, thereby signing his own death certificate.

The "dust bin" is in the eye of the beholder and corporate America (for the most part) doesn't care squat about the citizens or their culture.

Third world dust bin would be just fine with certain cliques of very influential people.

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F.H.

natalie, george o. was being sarcastic but - seriously - ppl. have a tendency to confuse " socialism" and "comunism"----------------all scandinavian countries, germany, france, even canada have a SOCIALIST type of economic/political system----cuba and n.korea, and ( formerly) soviet bloc are where the COMMUNISM ruled; nationalization of oil industry - as well as nationalization of health care system - will not make us freaking communists......... just get real, people! what it will is just taking the burden off our wallets............

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duszkiew

George Orwell wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mixmaster.it:

They had 12 cent a gallon gas before Hugo Chavez.

You cannot artificially lower the price of a commodity without the costs squirting out somewhere else. Ever wonder why Venezuela has always been so poor?

A repeat of the other instances where we imposed price controls throughout our history? You are either very young, have a short memory or have zero knowledge of history.

Or you're a troll.

The ignorance and hubris of this paragraph is absolutely breathtaking. This has GOT to be a joke post.

Reply to
Tegger

*shrug*

Seems that no matter what societal structure you have, there is someone/some group ready to rip you off.

Natalie

Reply to
Wickeddoll

ALL of his posts are joke posts. He just doesn't realize it.

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aarcuda69062

ROTFL.

The only thing we would get with nationalized oil is higher prices and incompetent people in office.

No one has shown that the profits that the oil companies are making are in any way inappropriate.

Jeff

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Jeff

Guess it depends on your idea of socialism. The answer is compared to many democratic countries, yes. However, they are quickly moving to Castro style communism. Chavez is already starting to close down media outlets who disagree with him.

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GO Mavs

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philthy

You mean that the same incompetents who are now running the country would then be running industry too? Maybe that isn't such a good thing after all.

Perce

Reply to
Percival P. Cassidy

So, how is the great Laissez-Faire theory working out since Reagan? For the middle class, I mean.

Reply to
F.H.

How far from running the oil business is the Bush gang?

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F.H.

"F.H." wrote in news:Ir25i.8569$ky6.8028@trnddc02:

What "laissez faire"? You do know what that term means in English, don't you?

Reply to
Tegger

Great line for the Daily Show.

"Who ya gonna believe..., me..., or your lying eyes." Richard Pryor

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F.H.

"Tegger" ...

I think he probably meant "bourgeois" (middle class)

Laissez-faire means the theory or system of government that upholds the autonomous character of the economic order, believing that government should intervene as little as possible in the direction of economic affairs. (dictionary.com)

Natalie

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Wickeddoll

"Wickeddoll" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.evilcabal.org:

Well, that's sort of true, but the literal translation from the French is "leave us alone".

How many governments in recent memory have actually done that? None to my count. Some have been worse than others, but nobody's ever been "laissez faire".

Probably the closest we've come in modern times to true "laissez faire" is Hong Kong under John Cowperthwaite. No US president could ever be accused of being "laissez faire".

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Tegger

aarcuda69062 wrote in news:nonelson- snipped-for-privacy@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com:

Government-built cars. Hmmm. Let me see...

Yugo Lada Dacia Trabant Zaporozhets FSO Moskvich

Don't those names just stir your blood and awaken fond memories of night cruises past the bright lights, loud music and pretty girls in front of the Kremlin? Va-va-voom, Tovarishch!

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Tegger

Are you sure it isn't the other way round?

Perce

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Percival P. Cassidy

6 to one.... half dozen to...... Whatever the truth is, there is no concern for the consumer just yet. What will it take I wonder. Has some influential think tank of close advisor's decided that like a Pearl Harbor incident would be good us, another crash like 29 would be good?

Probably not, why bother when screwing the citizens is going so well?

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F.H.

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