(h/t to Michelle Malkin)

So Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) has kinda-sorta reversed herself from her “no, not now, not ever” position against drilling offshore for oil.

But notice anything strange in how she tries to sell it?

And the consumer is our first responsibility. The American taxpayer owns this oil offshore, by the way. Let me make this one final point. This oil is owned by the American taxpayers. The oil companies drill. We give them money to drill there. But we get very little in return.

So I think as we have this debate, which is a very healthy one to have and I welcome it, we have to review and realign the relationship between our oil, big oil’s profits and what it means to the consumer and the taxpayer.

I am not the only one who smells something vaguely socialist here, as in “nationalization” of some large fraction of oil profits in exchange for “license” to drill… am I?

Or is it more like what Michelle Malkin suggests, that she is really shilling for T. Boone Pickens‘ wind farm ventures?