[Milton Miteybad]

He wouldn't.

I'm still trying to get my head around why some would think it a good idea for a nation with the capacity to export high-value goods such as finished gasoline to place a tariff on those goods sold into the international market, thus rendering them non-competitive. It just seems incredibly dumb to handicap your exports in the international marketplace, where the idea is to sell more exported goods, not fewer.

Some people may be forgetting that a lot of the finished gasoline we export is refined from imported crude oil, i.e., not all the gas being exported started out as American crude. Some of it is American crude, but not all of it, obviously.

[Alas Babylon!]

No, I wouldn’t want the USA to be non-competitive.

I would agree that a tariff should never make our goods cost more than what other nation’s goods sell at.

Thanks for setting my thinking straight.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Stop! You’re making too much sense.