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How would that increase security?

I think the parent comment is saying we are dependent on foreign oil and this will alleviate that.

Not only that, but global warming is slated to destabilize many regions of the planet. The quicker we can move en masse away from oil, the less severe that transition will be.

Which is a terrible, terrible plan.

"When goods do not cross borders then soldiers will."

Trade keeps people from trying to take things, and when they take them, they prefer to take them off of corpses. Isolation leads to jealousy and we're already isolated enough.

You’re saying we should be in favor of fossil fuels because it will.. prevent war? Gotta imagine the Middle East might have some experience here with regards to the peace bringing properties of oil.

I'm saying that by appealing to people's sense of ultimate self-reliance you are creating a monster.

Dependence on imported energy would be a key factor in a South China Sea conflict. It was a driver of Japan's expansionism in WWII.

Ah oil, the path to peace for so many countries! No but in all seriousness there certainly must be better goods to trade which could replace oil, if peace is the goal.

The US hasn't been dependent on foreign oil for years.

> The US hasn't been dependent on foreign oil for years.

Years? No:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

Last year, yes, for the first time since 1949. But even in 2020, we were importing more crude oil than we were exporting. The difference was due to the refined products that we exported.

Hence the isolationism in some.

>95% of Uranium is imported as well

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/where-our-uraniu...

By distributing the production of electricity more evenly across the grid, preventing large scale outages, and reducing our need for fossil fuels.

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