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Tariffs May Make It Too Expensive to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ | President Trump’s tariff polices have sent oil prices falling, which may push energy companies to reconsider their plans to drill. (www.nytimes.com)
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The article also has a second section on the failure of the Canadian carbon tax.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Trump crashes the US economy and deters consimer goods, especially oil. Alternative conspiracy that he's really an environmentalist? /s

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The first degrowth president

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Second, we already had Hoover. Trump's policies are basically a rerun of an economic approach we proved doesn't work 100y ago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Based on me reading wikipedia, in Hoover's fairness, Smoot-Hawley was mainly a congress led thing and he mainly rubber stamped it. He also introduced stimulus to help industries that he wanted to up their output.

Trump isn't doing anything stimulus-wise (if anything the opposite by introducing huge government cuts) to aid the new manufacturing processes he's assuming will spring up overnight, and he also seems to be the mastermind behind rebranding the US as tariff-land.

I don't know what my point is, that Trump's policies are a lot worse than Hoover's? I doubt anyone needed me to reach that conclusion to be fair.

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