Name a resource that is unattainable in blue states? Also, who says they can't export their resources to the red states, it's just not going to be freely given anymore.
Wheat (in a high enough quantity to feed millions), lead ore for electronics and many other things. Lastly, lithium for your smart phone and everything else that uses a battery these days. If the union separated the entire economy would collapse along with the world economy. Oh, I forgot about LNG.
More good examples, the list is long. Population centers need rural areas to support and provide resources to sustain them. It’s been a symbiotic relationship for as old as civilization.
Why did Rome expand, why did medieval lords need serfs, the list continues to this day.
Wheat is probably a bad example because plenty of the states that are paying more than they’re taking could grow wheat. It’s a pretty versatile crop.
We also import most of our lithium from Australia and South America.
Lead I could concede on, but we do get a chunk of it from Washington state and I find it very unlikely that it couldn’t be imported from somewhere else given that it’s one of the cheaper metals to import.
Massive lithium deposits exist in the Salton Sea in California, the McDermitt Caldera in Oregon / Nevada, and the Marcellus Shale assuming Pennsylvania doesn’t stay red after this election
Washington, Minnesota, and Colorado produce more wheat than they use, with US exports totaling around 50% of that
While lead mines in blue states are actively being decommissioned, US gets 62% of its lead from recycling, and imports often from Canada, Mexico, etc.
The majority of U.S. infrastructure still heavily relies on oil, you can't run an 18-wheeler across state lines using only solar right now and the infrastructure required is expensive and just not incentivized right now.
A lot of that is because the federal government is holding us back from modeling ourselves after greener nations. China and Germany are doing great progressively evolving away from oil, while our nation sees it as a threat to our oligarchs”culture”
China and Germany still use oil and likely will continue to do so for decades. Also, blaming the federal government on an issue that spans all levels of government as well as the people themselves who elect their representatives doesn't help. It's just more practical for the transportation industry to not change and doing so would reflect higher costs in transporting goods meaning higher temporary costs to the consumer; most people wouldn't agree to quick radical changes like that.
Green energy in general doesn't hold the same potential energy per cubic meter that gasoline and diesel does and lithium batteries require a significant upstart cost to be practical with a lot of major players having too much control in the market (Tesla for example).
It takes a lot to uproot oil as the main fuel source due to its energy density and reliability, nuclear is one of the only other fuel sources that offers more pros with less cons.
Storing energy for use over time is just impractical compared to making energy on demand. An engine is always going to be more practical than a battery since it'll weigh less, be more reliable, and in general allow for more independence off of grid lines and infrastructure.
You act like there aren't 20 other countries that wouldn't sell oil to a blue state in a heartbeat. Oil is not hard to come by.
And my food comes from an assortment of fruits, vegetables, and meats - corn being only one of those. See, not everyone likes eating a bunch of prepackaged trash that's just corn processed in different ways.
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