Reply #20: Well, there are always overlapping issues, responsibilities, etc.

[Tansy_Gold]

Dept of Defense and State Dept, for the obvious examples. Commerce and Labor. Transportation and Energy. And so on. The bureaucracy handled the formation of Dept of Homeland Security, so I'm sure the bureaucracy could handle the fusion of Energy, Interior, Commerce, etc., that would be needed for a hypothetical nationalization of BP and/or the entire oil industry.

TECHNICALLY, it already is sort of nationalized, in that the leases are -- AFAIK -- handled as national (sic) assets, with revenue coming to the Treasury. Operation of the drilling rigs and wells, obviously, is handled by private companies, including "foreign" ones.


TG