The news is reporting congress and others in Washington DC are proposing to nationalize the 145 or so oil refineries around the United States. Purpose being, the American oil companies have not properly operated to produce enough energy for American consumption.
Has our national leadership lost all reason, sanity, or thought? Just purchasing the existing refineries at a paltry $100,000,000.00 each cost $14.5 billion dollars. Congress has a proposed 2009 spending debt of $650,000,000,000.00, excluding another off budget $135,000,000,000.00 additional dollars of Iraq war debt. Exactly where are our national congressional leadership and the White House proposing to get these kinds of dollars for a bloated government bureaucracy operating oil refineries? Is issuing more treasury notes, (correction loans) from China, Japan, Ecuador, or Grand-pa Smith the brilliant plan?
Shall we examine the current fiscal, business management and quality of leadership our elected officials provide to “We the People”? How many or your national leaders actually have ANY experience in the petrochemical industry? Just give my question some logical consideration.
I spent three and half weeks working as a carpenter at the Koch petrochemical Refinery in Rosemount Minnesota several years ago. I have over 30 years in the construction industry, yet am not qualified to be a field superintendent for renovation or maintenance at a petrochemical plant. Moreover, our national leadership piously verbalize they can manage an entire national industry. Congress having the arrogance to conclude they could establish a bureaucracy remotely capable of qualified management is at best embarrassing for congress.
National leadership contacts for 50-A
Keith Ellison, U. S. House
http://ellison.house.gov/
Norm Colman, U. S. Senate
http://coleman.senate.gov/public/
Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Senate
http://klobuchar.senate.gov/
