Should OIL be gov. owned?

[The Abdominal Snoman]

In some places in America, it's illegal to harvest rain water. Water companies have sued in court saying that the rain water belongs to them...

[forillagorilla]

I find it odd that just because you happened to own land that sits over an oil field that you get to own the rights to the oil.  Something nature made, nothing you had to do with that took millions of years to happen and now 1 person can own it.  It doesn't seem right.  I'm surprised that decades ago the gov. didn't seize ownership of all oil fields in the country.  they could still keep it as an enterprise where they sell it to the refineries at a cheap cost so they can process it and resell it to consumers.  the fact that a dozen people have all the say in oil prices is just bullshit,  it should be owned by the masses.

Now I know the same can be said about gold, diamonds etc.. or other natural resources, but those don't have the same impact on the day to day life of mankind as oil does.

Fuck yeh it should be government owned - as should every natural resource!! The government still has time to save us from our stupidity. If we don't have the government angling things we will just probably all die. Everybody knows that the government can do anything the private sector can do except BETTER. I used to have this friend that was so smart - he knew everything about everything - where do you think he is now -- THE GOVERNMENT!! They only hire the best of the best - and of course now he is all uppity and can't hang out with a dumbass regular citizen - but at least I can sleep easily now knowing that I can never get sick again because the government took overt health care and it's only a matter of time before they pass a law banning sickness !!! 

[Roger Bacon]

I find it odd that just because you happened to own land that sits over an oil field that you get to own the rights to the oil.  Something nature made, nothing you had to do with that took millions of years to happen and now 1 person can own it.  It doesn't seem right.  I'm surprised that decades ago the gov. didn't seize ownership of all oil fields in the country.  they could still keep it as an enterprise where they sell it to the refineries at a cheap cost so they can process it and resell it to consumers.  the fact that a dozen people have all the say in oil prices is just bullshit,  it should be owned by the masses.

Now I know the same can be said about gold, diamonds etc.. or other natural resources, but those don't have the same impact on the day to day life of mankind as oil does.

It's not odd at all? Private property, what's the problem?

If you do think it's odd, I don't see how giving it up for wasteful politicians to squander would make it any less odd?

[muscleman-2013]

I find it odd that just because you happened to own land that sits over an oil field that you get to own the rights to the oil.  Something nature made, nothing you had to do with that took millions of years to happen and now 1 person can own it.  It doesn't seem right.  I'm surprised that decades ago the gov. didn't seize ownership of all oil fields in the country.  they could still keep it as an enterprise where they sell it to the refineries at a cheap cost so they can process it and resell it to consumers.  the fact that a dozen people have all the say in oil prices is just bullshit,  it should be owned by the masses.

Now I know the same can be said about gold, diamonds etc.. or other natural resources, but those don't have the same impact on the day to day life of mankind as oil does.

Fuck off you dumb fuck socialist.