Cliff wrote in
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On 3 Jan 2006 02:31:03 GMT, D Murphy wrote:

If 10 nations embargoed the US the US would be
out of business quickly. They'd not miss many US exports
for long.

We'd be hurting mainly for oil and labor should that happen. We don't
have enough of either to be independent of other nations.

Critical materials are imported.
Tungsten, alloying elements, etc.
We do have a huge surplus of Uranium, from making all those
nuclear bombs.

What's in the "Strategic Stockpile"?

You would be amazed. Mountains of materials, parts, electronics, and loads
upon loads of machine tools. Not to mention the ordnance. All of it is
assigned a shelf life too. When the life is up they auction much of it off.
This is how unused 30 year old multi spindle screw machines turn up on the
used market from time to time.


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Dan