Hawkins Calls for Creation of National Oil Company

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for US Senate from New York, called today for the creation of a national oil company to help protect American consumers against the rapidly escalating price hikes for gasoline.

Hawkins said that the national oil company would take advantage of the offer by the Venezuelan government to sell oil at only $50 a barrel for the next 200 years, well below the current world price of around $70 a barrel. $50 a barrel means about $2 a gallon at the gas pump.

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