During the 2016 elections there was a lot of talk about jobs, mostly jobs lost due to industries that collapsed. The sectors of our economy that were once strong and vibrant, but we trade them with other nations, are bad trade deals. Donald Trump is right, most of the main trade agreements that we have made have not been good for our economy in the long term, surely they may have earned us points on the international stage and helped us to be a ‘client nation’ to other old ones. superpowers and slowed down an emerging superpower, but what good will it do if we don’t have decent jobs for our own citizens?
You should see the destruction we have done in the mining sector for no real reason, today we have amazing mining technologies in place to prevent environmental damage, but good luck trying to make that work again. How can we compete with manufacturing when the entire supply chain, from resources to finished cars, has been destroyed? We are much better than this.
We have allowed our industrial capacities to be crushed, and we have politicians who please the vocal minority and the incited media instead of reason and reality. It shouldn’t cost $ 50 million in work from EIRs and lawyers to get a refinery approval or a new strategy to add clean coal technology to an existing coal-fired power generation plant that has been burning coal for energy for 50 years. I thought we wanted cheap, clean energy.
No, apparently we want to hijack the fossil fuel industry to divert the wealth of the industry to new unproven alternative energy people who are friends or family of Pelosi, Reid or who donated a lot of money to the Obama Administration elections. And it’s not just Democrats joining the crony capitalism feeding frenzy, because when money flows into politics, people line up and throw away their politics, they just want to get rich, the problem is that we taxpayers, we screwed up, and now we pay again in higher energy costs for the subsidies and inefficiencies.
Our companies are less competitive with higher energy costs for manufacturing, industry, mining, and therefore it is even more difficult to compete above the four elements I mentioned above. Of course, I digress again. The point is that bad policies, cronyism, and attacks on our corporations by unions, class action lawyers, over-regulation, and foreign influences make us run at 1500 RPM when we mark the red line at 5,000 RPM. Think about this, because it can be fixed.