> No other country can compare. No one else has this. These in-built advantages are incredibly hard to beat.
You left out the most important advantage: the US has plenty of oil and gas;
You left out the most important advantage: the US has plenty of oil and gas;
Quite frankly, I always knew oil / gas was big in US, when I realized it's THE largest petrostate, it felt weird.
42% of Saudi GDP is petroleum. 35% of Kazakh GDP is petroleum. 8% of US GDP is petroleum.