Read my post.....it was not edited
30,000 ann. income X 15% under world level of disposable income spent on food X 300 million people..........
math is easy, reading is hard for some.........
My point stands.......the masses want their welfare level food clothing and energy........
Be my guest-——request you energy supplies to be from whatever foreign source / friend or enemy.....and then suffer the consequenses......
Sorry to not reply sooner - have been working way too many hours to hang around here much.
You are multiplying the wrong figures. You can’t find the number of apple seeds in the USA by multiplying the number of seeds per apple times the number of peaches. There are NOT 300+ million annual incomes of an average $30,000, in the USA. To be strictly correct, you’d have to multiply average household income by the number of households in the US.
And for the reasons I stated, I seriously doubt that 15% figure, also. A lot of the world pays more for it’s food than we do, but a lot more pays MUCH less, in absolute terms. Been there, done that.
Where we agree is on the need to be energy self-sufficient, or at least not import vastly more $$ in energy than we export (whatever goods or services) to the same people. Corn-based ethanol aside, we certainly could be self-sufficient, as the resources & technology are there.