[onlyrealcuzzo]

> From an energy security standpoint being net neutral or better is good but is the US insulated from fossil fuel prices?

The US as an economy is mostly not effected by fuel prices anymore.

But the average US consumer is - that's probably the important part.

[UncleOxidant]

But the average US consumer is a big part of the economy - if they're effected, then how is the US economy not effected?

[stu2b50]

If the US consumer is buying from US producers, then it is just money bouncing around domestically. You could argue that from a birds eye view, the US economy as a whole, at least on a national scale, is minimally affected.

That being said, I can't agree with the parent post, it's not that symmetric.

[kbenson]

Doesn't that assume that those local producers are only using local resources? It's very hard to be insulated well in this day and age. Livestock feed price is up. Fertilizer price is up. Equipment shipping costs are up, when they aren't hard to come by. (I can provide sources, but I just googled price of those over time and found charts supporting it easily enough).

Its very hard to be really insulated from higher fuel costs, even if it's produced locally. You still need to ship it to a refinery, and then ship it back out to gas stations. Unless you run a farm where you get all your inputs locally and they are also trying to use only local inputs, you're going to see these price increases. Many of the economic inputs people use for production, whether that be food or built items, have gone up, and often there's only so much they can do to insulate from that.

[sleepdreamy]

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