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Originally Posted by Red Ice Player
Major scientific breakthroughs lead to more breakthroughs. My hope is that it could be done in a period of peace, which unfortunately is not something mankind has a good track record in. When you think about it, the USA is the world's largest consumer of energy. Fusion would end America's dependency on foreign oil. The countries who supply that energy will be kinda screwed, including Canada to some degree.
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The USA, I think, exited 2012 as the world's second largest producer of oil and its dependence on foreign oil is shrinking after peaking in 2005.
The USA is actually a net exporter of all petroleum products.
Fusion is cool but it would take a long, long time to turn the petroleum ship onto the rocks.
Cowperson