Posted on 04/14/2014 7:06:19 PM PDT by neverdem
You have no idea what you are talking about. When oil comes up from a well, it is often mixed with natural gas. That gas is usually too dilute to be used effectively. That’s the excess gas in ND that you are talking about. There is no known way to make this gas economically feasible to use or sell, and you best believe that a lot of time, money and brains has worked on the problem.
Gas prices are low in the US because of the export ban. If the ban is lifted, prices will trend upwards towards global norms, which will hurt energy intensive industries and increase heating and electrical bills for American homes and businesses.
America does not have vastly more fossil fuels than Saudi Arabia or Russia. Persian Gulf oil in particular is low cost to produce and high quality, whereas the recently obtained oil in the US is higher cost and lower quality on average.
Please, learn something about the energy industry and markets before you make absurd statements.
I think you misunderstood my comment.
The article claimed that Republicans need to create more high paying blue collar jobs in order to “regain” the voters from “Middle America.”
That sounds like a futile strategy to me.
Well paid blue collar jobs are disappearing all over the world, not just in the USA.
And it’s not clear to me how we can stop that from happening.
As to massive LEGAL immigration - I was pointing out that low skill, lower paid jobs cannot be created fast enough in America to keep up with the 1.5 million new LEGAL immigrants who arrive here each year.
Massive LEGAL immigration harms low skill native born Americans.
It pushes down wages, reduces the number of open jobs, and limits upward mobility for low skill Americans.
The opposite of how it stated: tariffs.
When a BUYER with FREEDOM can choose between similar products, based upon pain to his wallet; he will usually by the cheaper one.
Thus, the American product WILL lose out because it costs more to produce; thus to buy.
Tariffs 'leveled' the playing field; costwise.
Only in some fields...
Things that cannot be automated too much as still a good choice.
I think that 'low skill native born Americans' harm themselves!
Gumminit makes it WAY too easy to STAY 'low skilled'.
But; if these folks were to somehow be high skilled; what jobs would they then get?
Only 9 percent of the manufacturing labor force is unionized in the USA.
This is one of those moments where the anonymity of the internet is just hilarious.
bttt
Worldwide, it is becoming globalist/banking interests fighting the rights of an over-abundance of people. It is both the dems and the ‘pubs, of course; in the US the ptb use the political theater to keep us entertained and believing voting matters.
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