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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: teevee who wrote (15208)1/1/2002 12:03:54 PM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
tv, your non-US education has some holes:

Your post implies that the US is somehow dependent on cheap commodities and energy from other countries to sustain its economy. Nothing can be further from the truth. The US is in fact a big commodity exporter. Other countries are dependent on cheap US commodities, especially food. The only vital US commodity dependence on other countries, oil and gas, represents a relatively small proportion of the total energy consumed by the US, and can be eliminated, if the US chooses to reduce demand by imposing energy taxes similar to those in Europe and Japan.

If push comes to shove, the US is uniquely equipped to "go it alone" with zero dependence on other countries.
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