Just a question. If energy production in the US was nationalized, what would a gallon of gas cost?

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54. I did not compare USA with Venezuela, but if Venezuela was able to nationalize oil and other

natural resources industries with success I believe the USA can also do so.

"That isn't how we do things in this country." Really??? So, there is no room for change, I see...we do things this way, and that is the end of it...Amazing progressive thinking. With that way of thinking it would be a futile exercise to want to eliminate the "Electoral College" because that is the way we do things, or to change the presidential pardon to avoid pardoning of crooks like Manafort, Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, etc. because that is the way we do things...I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

I believe in change, I believe that we must progress and do things better, we all know there are too many things wrong in our government and laws. For example, people like trump should be prevented from running for office, any office, because he was found guilty of fraud due to his trump university and trump foundation, but why bother changing the laws to prevent people like that from running for office because that is the way we do things...wow!!!

By the way, you seemed to have missed the point I made that the success of the nationalization of oil that happened in Venezuela was successful UNTIL Hugo Chavez came to power, and UNTIL THEN the government DID NOT own private industries, only what belonged to all the Venezuelan people, such as oil, mining of gold, precious stones, steel, etc. things that come from the earth and thus belong to the nation, not to private enterprises. There is a difference, it may be worthwhile for you to read a little about Venezuela's history, they used to call it "the Switzerland of South America" because of how well it run, UNTIL Hugo Chavez too power.

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