HadAnEffectHere
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Okay, so I hate basically all conservative ideology for only wanting to discriminate against others, but this goes beyond discrimination to just confusingly, impossibly stupid.
How do people not know that... Markets are global.
If Russia and Saudi Arabia stopped producing fossil fuels, the cost of fossil fuels to consumers in the United States would increase MASSIVELY even if the US produced enough fossil fuels to meet domestic demand.
Why? Because the market price for fossil fuels would dramatically increase in Europe, Asia, etc and so fossil fuel producers would sell fossil fuels overseas for an extremely high price.
To make US unaffected by the production of fossil fuels in Russia etc, you would have to ban the exporting of energy.
I can't believe the party of Robert Lucas and Milton Friedman has completely fallen apart in terms of being able to understand the most basic of economics.
I think self-sufficiency is largely a stupid goal, but if you wanted a self-sufficient power source unaffected by the domestic policies of other nations... I mean, this is literally solar and wind once it's installed...
How many economics courses or papers have you taken/read? Is it 0 or less than 0 somehow?