Ban on gas fracking in England lifted in push for energy independence

AgingGator · Sep 25, 2022

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Ironically, the U.S. created China. It started with thinking during the Carter administration that recognizing China (and not recognizing Taiwan) would be a positive for China, and helping China develop their economy would automatically make them more democratic and westernized. Bill Clinton jumped on this idea whole-heartedly (while taking some bribes from Asian businessmen), allowing U.S. mutual funds to not only invest in Chinese manufacturing, but also deliver U.S. technology to these Chinese companies. Clinton felt that manufacturing was a dirty business, and the real money was in the innovation that led to the manufacturing, so he took an active role in pushing U.S. manufacturing out of the country--even his EPA tried to do this (Carol Browner wanted to ban the chlorine molecule, among other things). Unfortunately, it was not widely known that there is a feedback loop between innovation and manufacturing that needs to exist (you cannot design products that cannot be manufactured economically). China quickly invested in universities to develop their own innovation capabilities to take advantage of the feedback loop, while the U.S. was pushing out manufacturing. The U.S. quickly realized that China had no respect for Intellectual Property rights, and that it was far easier to put money and equipment into China than it was to take it out. Eventually, the U.S. found out that China was really good at espionage, and that they were investing much of their profits on developing a modern military that they really didn't need (no one was threatening to invade China). Surprisingly, no president until Dimwit Donald Trump figured out that China was building their military for a reason.
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Outstanding post!! You’ve tied it all together and put a nice tidy bow on it.

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