In the United States we have abundant raw materials and natural resources. Many in the United States of America the mines have been closed, the raw materials we too much from other countries, must arrive here at a very high cost. Many of the raw materials we get from other nations are not as good as the raw materials we have here and that is a real problem.
Likewise in the future many of the raw materials we have in the United States we will not need because the likelihood of us making things out of steel and copper are not too probable. We will have Nano diamond powder tubes may have carbon, fiber optics, special composites and super alloys made from exotic metals or that have be re-engineered at the molecular level. Because this is the obvious future, we should use our own raw materials in the United States first.
Many economists and the old way of thinking believe we should use raw materials from other nations first and then when they ran out we would be last with our own raw materials and not have anything to worry about. However technology and the rapid advances in research and development has shown us that in the future we will not need these raw materials anyway.
Our goal should be to use our own raw materials in the United States first and work on innovation, research and development was prospected materials in the future to make things better, with their own raw materials. As long as we can use our own in a responsible and environmentally friendly way of raw material that is meaningful to the ground here for the first time to use our materials to use their own. Please consider take this into consideration in 2006.