Writing in Jacobin Magazine, Peter Gowan proposes a "A Plan to Nationalize Fossil-Fuel Companies." Highlight the research of the Democracy Collaborative published in the Nation magazine:
This could be quite costly — writers from The Democracy Collaborative recently estimated “the price tag to purchase outright the top 25 largest US-based publicly traded oil and gas companies, along with most of the remaining publicly traded coal companies” at $1.15 trillion. But there are ways to minimize this cost while still obtaining all of the benefits.