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Originally Posted by austro-libertarian
What I think is that this sounds a bit too much like "we" are a big club that can make these decisions. It is up to the individual companies to make these types of decisions. I think trade is beneficial and should not be arbitrarily defined by a country's borders. You could make the same argument of self-sufficiency within any geographic territory. Imagine Alaska decides not to export (i.e., trade) its goods to Washington; or perhaps Los Angeles doesn't want to export its products to San Francisco; or a community doesn't export to another community; or an individual decides not to export any of their products to anyone else. Sounds a bit silly to me . . . trade is mutually beneficial and prices help coordinate exchanges in the market.
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Anyone who has read my threads knows that I'm a free-trade / free-market supporter.
The purpose of this thread was to demonstrate the absurdity of yelling about importing so much oil when we EXPORT oil. If those doing the yelling about "our dependence on foreign oil" would just get of their arse and start wondering why in the world we would EXPORT oil under the "dependence on foreign oil" rampage, we'd get somewhere.
If T.Boone Pickens would study a bit more, he'd not be so inclined to go for wind power, etc...
We ought not complain about importing oil if we are exporting what we produce.
It's nonsense.
Also, we can most certainly drill ourselves out of dependence on unfriendly foreign sources of oil. We have extraordinary reserves in both standard sources and in shale oil, etc.
Hydroelectric could be used more, for sure, if you could get around the eco-extremist who sue to have such things stopped.
It's just a mess, but we are barking up the wrong tree on solutions, and we don't even realize the facts behind the smoke-screen we are being fed.