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2019-06-26 -Land of the Free

Zeihan: The American Retreat, Part I: Oil

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Posted by 3dc 2019-06-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 As counterintuitive as it sounds, we need more carbon-heavy fuels to get to a lighter-carbon world. And that means coal and oil. A lot of oil.

So fossil fuels are important? Somebody should send this article to AOC. And Gov. Newsom.

Posted by Bobby 2019-06-26 08:03|| 2019-06-26 08:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Somebody should send this article to AOC. And Gov. Newsom

You have to use easier concepts and words for 3rd grade comprehension, Bobby.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-06-26 10:29|| 2019-06-26 10:29|| Front Page Top

#3 You have to use easier concepts and words for 3rd grade comprehension, Bobby.

"Dirty burn, good."

Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-26 12:19|| 2019-06-26 12:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Oil is not the only thing being shipped around the world. A goodly portion is either raw materials and finished goods being shipped to American customers or raw materials and finished goods being shipped from American suppliers. So the American Navy will not completely get out of the business of patrolling the sea lanes.

True, but I think Zeihan's point is that the security of the Persian Gulf -- not world shipping in general -- will be a subject of American choice.

And actually, if Zeihan is correct on the effects of increased risks of oil supplies to the world economy, then even the protection of world shipping could decrease and become a matter of choice to America as the volume and "range" of that shipping decline.

Certainly, economics is not the only factor here.

We don't want to leave a vacuum that the Chinese might fill, for example.

But if Zeihan is right, then our options will be greater and better.

Posted by charger 2019-06-26 17:30|| 2019-06-26 17:30|| Front Page Top

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