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THE FRIGGIN PROGRAM I PROPOSED IS VOLUNTARY!!!!!!! How do you not get this man? It is a hypothetical situation where Oil Company A goes to the US Gov't and says, "Hey, if you grant us a permit, we'll only sell to US customers. There are no other stipulations. You cannot regulate us more or less. The permit is the same permit you've been giving out yearly. However, we realize that you are not giving out permits for NEW refineries so this is our attempt at persuading you to do so." Then one of two responses from the US gov't occurs. Response 1 is "Yes, we will grant you the permit." or Response 2 is "No, we will not grant you the permit." In the case of response 1, Oil Company A begins refining oil and selling it to the largest oil market in the world under their own volition. In the case of response 2, Oil Company A says, "Fine, screw you, I'll take my business elsewhere." and carries on with their day. At no point does the US Gov't mandate anything, regulate anything more than they already do, or make a private company do anything that they don't want to do. It is initiated by the PRIVATE company. It is carried out by the PRIVATE company. And at no point does the US Gov't step in and say "Hey, we own this now." I can't believe I even had to go into this much detail about a hypothetical proposal that everyone else in the thread seemed to understand but somehow you didn't. Now, I have a prediction. You will continue to argue this point, even though you will now realize that there is nothing big gov't about what I said. Why? Because like most users on this website you won't cede a point after you've been smarmy.
Jeez man - settle down.
I said what I said based on what you said before and I stand behind it.
What you propose sounds like big government to me (or too big for my taste).
Now this is gone WAY past the point of me caring.
You wanna think your idea is free enterprise - go ahead.
Take a wild guess if I really care very much?
Have a good day.
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