Only if you define nationalized as you see fit with no regard to its
actual definition. But once we do that, the English Language has no use.
Something is nationalized when the national goverment can give arbitrary orders without respect to law regarding the function and operation of a particular company or industry. Another name for this is fascism.
Apparently the largest oil spill in the US is "no reason." Furthermore, closing access to one portion of US held waters is not nationalization.
Exactly. The oil spill caused by the failure of one government agency to ensure that one drilling rig was obeying the law was not sufficient reason to shut down the businesses of other companies which have not been proven to be GUILTY of operating outside the law, and in fact, since those operations had not demonstrated any sudden urge to erupt in black gold, the practical assumption would have been to review their operating processes while permitting their operations to continue.
However, we have an inexperienced child running the show in Washington. A child who not only has no experience in command, who's got no experience running a business, but he doesn't even have any experience ever doing any thing useful in his whole life, ever. But, he did see an opportunity to throw tens of thousands of Americans out of work and by the same act vastly increase the dependency of the US on foreign oil. So Obama took that opportunity to do as much damage as he could when it was fresh.
Unless you're willing to argue that the president in the White House is the most incompetent boob ever, with absolutely no respect for the laws this nation was built on, then you can't deny the alternative, that the damaging moratorium was spiteful and deliberate.
US oil would be nationalized if we had a Venezuela/Mexico system. Which we do not.
So you're trying to argue that there's only one shade of red?
That it?
And that proves the actual definition of nationalized HOW?
He has the personal authority to control who drills where and who looks where for what.
Since the Left's goal in nationalizing the American oil industry is nothing more or less than the closing of it, the President's exercise of power to increasing restrict drilling sites is all they need or want to do at this time.
Bogus? You have this really awful tendency to define words however you see fit with absolutely no regard for their real definitions. The Volt gets 40 miles on its charge without the downsize of many full fledged electric cars. Hardly "bogus."
No, it's a bogus car because it's technology was obsolete the day the stupid thing was revealed on the market. Outside of the rubber wheels and motor-thingy, it's no different in concept than the million candle-power spot light I have plugged into the wall for later use when I want to signal the crew on the space station or blind airline pilots, even though what I really use it for is to signal other boats that my sail boat is HERE, just in case they don't see all the other lights in the rigging.
But, it's got a battery, it's got a charger, it turns AC into DC, it runs down, and one of these days I'll have to replace the whole spotlight because it won't be economical to replace the battery.
JUST LIKE THE VOLT.
But....I just spent a couple hundred bucks replacing the alternator in my van, and the EGR valve and the distributor, and the coil, and other thingies our President couldn't figure out what to do with, and my gas hog bus is good for it's next hundred thousand miles. It's battery replacement cost is about a hundred bucks, too.
So subsidizing an industry so that it hires more people kills jobs? By more growth we kill more jobs! lol.
Yes.
Learn economics someday. Money doesn't grow on trees. It has to be stolen from someone else first before one useless company can be subsidized over another.
