BAR wrote:
In articleTtudndrW4ch87ijQnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@earthlink .com, payer3389
@mypacks.net says...
BAR wrote:
In articleHs6dnccI4r3x1yjQnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@earthlink .com, payer3389
@mypacks.net says...
Corporations are not, like any individual, entitled to commit treason
with impunity.... no matter how important profit is, to some self
centered investors...

How unAmerican of you, Gene! :)
Don't you believe in corporations über alles?

I believe we need to "restructure" certain aspects of our society, and
part of that restructuring should be how we handle leases to explore and
drill for oil and natural gas.

There's nothing sacred about for-profit corporations. That model isn't
working anymore for us. It's milking the middle class dry and
accelerating the transfer of wealth to the very rich.

There are any number of oil-producing countries in which ownership of
that asset is retained by the state, and the revenues used to finance
the government. The problem here is that Americans have been brainwashed
into thinking the price-fixing, for-profit private sector that dominates
the energy business is the only way to do that sort of business.
This collectivization thing was tried before and it failed miserable.
Also, government control of all industry has failed miserable too.


Again, lack of education and deficits in your knowledge base of "current
events" have done you in. As I stated, "There are any number of
oil-producing countries in which ownership of that asset is retained by
the state, and the revenues used to finance the government."

Yeah right. Where is the line Harry, where is the line of good
corporations and bad corporations? When does a corporation go from being
a bad corporation to being a good lackey of the government?

I'm not talking about the failed Communist states here, Bertie. But you
think I am.

Shouldn't the government be running all farming? Shouldn't the
government be running al agriculture? What about fishing? Should we be
paying mother nature in whatever currency she wants to take her bounty?


Reductio ad absurdum.

Although I do believe we need to be much more careful about the
environment so that we continue to have a "nature" that produces bounty
for us.