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> Your iPhone was not built here. Your banana was not grown here. The corn might have been grown half a country away. The drugs you might have been prescribed w
by read_if_gay_ 6y ago
> Your iPhone was not built here. Your banana was not grown here. The corn might have been grown half a country away. The drugs you might have been prescribed were maybe not produced in your country at all. Why would energy be so different in that regard?
The examples you provided here really don't illustrate your point well because most of them are easily shipped across the ocean which is not at all true for energy.
- _Microft 6y agoRenewable energy production is not as centralized as production of physical goods. There is no need to transmit energy that far.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoExactly, and that's why those examples aren't really illustrative of the point you're making. That's all I was trying to say.
- roenxi 6y agoWe do ship energy across oceans though, in oil tankers and as coal. A better counterargument would the suspicious number of wars, invasions and military bases involved in cross-country energy exchanges (ie, there is a lot of fighting over oil in the middle east). It seems remarkably foolish to source energy from territory controlled by a foreign military.