I see you’re editing your comment and included something about oil. The decision of petroleum being either extracted or imported is based on local extraction costs vs import prices. This is why I mentioned “allowing for slight energy cost increase”. You could very well be importing 100% of your oil and just not extracting your own because slightly more expensive… And once again, this would be giving away labor to the world at the cost of US workers so companies that relied heavily on energy got better profit margins (i.e. mining, logistics, etc)
I don’t make the rules. This is just how it works.
I see you’re editing your comment and included something about oil. The decision of petroleum being either extracted or imported is based on local extraction costs vs import prices. This is why I mentioned “allowing for slight energy cost increase”. You could very well be importing 100% of your oil and just not extracting your own because slightly more expensive… And once again, this would be giving away labor to the world at the cost of US workers so companies that relied heavily on energy got better profit margins (i.e. mining, logistics, etc)
I don’t make the rules. This is just how it works.