American Oil Company

Well fellow patroits we are quickly approaching the dog days of summer. Down in the Gulf Region of the U.S. folks in Louisiana are marching in the street so we can go back to more off shore drilling. Never mind we ain't got the present mess cleaned up, time to get back to work. You know what; why not? Little change in plans thou because, I think the time has come for us to just take over BP's rigs and pay the folks working them out of the US Treasury. Few boats from the Navy, a few Marines, take down the goofy Marshall Island Flags on the rigs and replace it with the "Star and Strips". Now we wouldn't have to permanently occupy this territory, mind you. We could call it "Operation Clean Gulf" and just be maintaining the safety of the rigs in these dangerous times(Heard a little rumor they were think about sailing their mobile rigs to cleaner waters off Africa) We just pay the folks to run the rigs and sell "Our" oil on the open market till things got tidied up off our shores. We dump a ton of money in to the military industrial complex so, why not protect the livelyhood of "American Citizens" with it. Throughout the modern history of the world, lead has always been more valuable than gold. I don't know about anybody else but, I think it's about time we reminded the slow pay folks at BP why that's true. Might be a great learning experience for the rest of the oil monopolies. Probably wouldn't even have to inspect their operations anymore for safe working practices after they watch what happen to their good friend BP. They'd probably become the safest, cleanest business on the face of the earth after that lesson. The name American Oil sounds good to me at this point in history.