> 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

It didn't look like that at the gas pump today.

Ignoring the part where just running everything off fossil fuel is suicidal for the planet, the US actually isn't self-sufficient with just fossil fuels.

https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/fossil-fuels-fall-be...

Renewables are cheaper to build out, and we're facing a massive energy shortage. We need to be building renewable production as quickly as possible just to keep up with demand.

Insisting that we use obsolete, expensive and dirty technologies while the rest of the planet modernizes is just dumb.

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

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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