The US (with Canada and Mexico) is self-sufficient with fossil fuel energy.

It's awesome the US hasn't destabilized one of those neighbors and alienated the other one by declaring it the prospective 51st state. Soft power really is America's super power.

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jwr 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unfortunately, we share the planet and the atmosphere with it.

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eecc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’d wager the US is self sufficient also in terms of renewable energies.

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krige 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The US (with Canada and Mexico) is self-sufficient with fossil fuel energy.

Oh boy can't wait for the reenactment of third reich intervening peacefully in czechoslovakia, for their own safety and wellbeing of course, and not at all for the resources they're hoarding, the filthy hoarders.

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Mashimo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But it gets traded globally. That means if the price goes up in Asia, it also goes up in NA.

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idle_zealot 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sure, if we build out refining capacity for the next ten years. Then we're golden until we run out of the finite well of combustible dead algae. So if you think we can revitalize American manufacturing and resource processing starting now, and you're okay with those investments being worthless in a few decades, and you don't give a shit about rendering the planet significantly less habitable to human life, then yeah, we're totally self-sufficient with fossil fuels.

Or we could, you know, pull energy out of the air and sun, a strategy which will be viable until our star dies.

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bryanlarsen 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Alberta tar sands have hundreds of years worth of reserves. They're also expensive and incredibly dirty to extract and emit significantly more CO2 during processing than a light oil well will. (The tar is usually melted by heating with natural gas).

I'm quite confident cheap renewable alternatives will make the tar sands inviable far before they run out.

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		Some good news though, with the war in Iran the spiking oil price means that Albertan executives can ramp up operations and stay quite profitable! Push the price to 200/barrel and we'll just strip mine the entire province after airlifting out Calgary and Edmonton.

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saidnooneever 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

another option is not to shit on all countires who do have resources driving the prices up for everyone.

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Barrin92 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do find the slow Sovietization of America funny, both mentally and economically. The year is 2050, autarky on energy has been established, the markets cut off, politics in the hands of erratic and geriatric leaders. Americans proudly drive 30 year old Fords the way people used to drive Ladas, while China exports green energy, cars and infrastructure to the world.

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IncreasePosts an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ireland during the famine was self sufficient with food production but that didn't stop people from sending food to the highest bidders abroad.

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HDThoreaun 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The US is unable to implement export controls so consuming less than it creates doesnt mean theres enough since producers will export if international prices are better

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