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ORIGINAL: SugarMyChurro

Maybe we should privatize schools too then. Education for those that can afford it.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

If we nationalize oil does that mean we all get free gasoline, and we can drive the biggest vehicles money can buy... or would socialists also want total control of our driving choices.

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ORIGINAL: JohnSteed1967

Here's the thing, Not sure if it was Teddy or Franklin Roosevelt that drafted the coal miners, but there is a history of the government stepping in and taking over a vital national resource during times of crisis.

Jimmy Carter (Cringe) proposed nationalizing the Oil companies as a way of relieving the national debit.

I know for a fact, that much of the oil coming off the Alaskan piple line is loaded into boats heading for CHINA.

We can't get action out of this president, but I think we should start a push with the new president to pass a law that says very simply the following : If its oil and it found with in the boundries of the us, its ours. Its not to be bought, sold or traded!
and that the resources of any oil company doing business in America now belong to us.

I mean come on, the Saudi's have like .10 gas and Brazil? Come on Hugo Chavez the whole country's oil system is nationalized. Before the US Blundered into IRAQ their oil system was nationalized!

• All United States railroads were nationalized as the United States Railroad Administration during World War I as a wartime measure but were returned to their private owners almost immediately after the war.
  
• The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) is a government-owned corporation created in 1971 for the express purpose of relieving American railroads of their legal obligation to provide inter-city rail service. They were trying to get out of this obligation anyway, but by taking over their passenger rail assets, Amtrak was able to keep the passenger trains running.
  
• In 1976 the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), another government corporation, was created to take over the operations of six bankrupt rail lines operating primarily in the Northeastern United States; Conrail was privatized in 1987. Initial plans for Conrail would have made it a truly nationalized system like that during World War I, but an alternate proposal by the Association of American Railroads won out.
  
• Organization of the Tennessee Valley Authority entailed the nationalization of the facilities of the former Tennessee Electric Power Company in 1939.
  
• In 2001, in response to the September 11th attacks, the then-private airport security industry was nationalized and put under the authority of the Transportation Security Administration.

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ORIGINAL: pinksugarsub
O, i really like this idea.  i would have thought that there would be constitutional barriers, but i googled this, and there is (according to Wikpedia) an American history of natonalising indusries.

• All United States railroads were nationalized as the United States Railroad Administration during World War I as a wartime measure but were returned to their private owners almost immediately after the war.
  
• The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) is a government-owned corporation created in 1971 for the express purpose of relieving American railroads of their legal obligation to provide inter-city rail service. They were trying to get out of this obligation anyway, but by taking over their passenger rail assets, Amtrak was able to keep the passenger trains running.
  
• In 1976 the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), another government corporation, was created to take over the operations of six bankrupt rail lines operating primarily in the Northeastern United States; Conrail was privatized in 1987. Initial plans for Conrail would have made it a truly nationalized system like that during World War I, but an alternate proposal by the Association of American Railroads won out.
  
• Organization of the Tennessee Valley Authority entailed the nationalization of the facilities of the former Tennessee Electric Power Company in 1939.
  
• In 2001, in response to the September 11th attacks, the then-private airport security industry was nationalized and put under the authority of the Transportation Security Administration.

pinksugarsub

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ORIGINAL: Marc2b

That means domestic drilling/refining and (gasp!) nuclear power, just for starters.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

How is your deity

HUGE GOVENMENT BUREAUCRACY

any improvement. Most of the industry would move outside the U.S., you'd be driving more jobs to Mexico or somewhere else... I imagine any government worker drones remaining behind wouldn't  be paid nearly as well, they wouldn't be nearly as motivated, and we still won't get our free gas. Hell, I'm sure gas would be rationed under your system.

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Hey, if you read carefully, that song is actually pro-nuclear. My opinion on the matter isn't clear cut: in Europe, nuclear energy is Queen.

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver
Its an ideological lie that private companies are more efficient than nationalized industries when managing vital resources and utilities.