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American agriculture is entirely dependent on petroleum, of which the US imports millions of barrels a day. Inland farmers require foreign oil as an input to t
by thecrash 4y ago
American agriculture is entirely dependent on petroleum, of which the US imports millions of barrels a day.
Inland farmers require foreign oil as an input to the caloric production you describe, which means that to survive they need the ports and pipelines of North America as well as the cooperation of oil-rich nations.
- NovemberWhiskey 4y agoDon't forget the massive subsidies to corn farming etc. generated by Federal mandates for biofuels.
- kipchak 4y agoRecently become a net exporter of all petroleum products, with Texas, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, Alaska and California being the largest producers. At least in the near term I don't think the flyover states are as reliant on imports as the coasts if you were to put them in separate categories. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51338 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51338 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-oil-production-by-state/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-oil-production-b...
- wingspar 4y agoPretty sure if there was such a split, gulf coast states and their ports would go with the inland farmers. So petroleum would be imported around the Mississippi. Likely a split would have the ‘red’ states net exporting petroleum.