Buy American & Save Energy

I’m fully supportive of our new President Donald Trump’s promise to bring jobs back to America. I realize that computerization and robots have eliminated many of the factory jobs people worked at years ago but we need any jobs we can get. And, think of the fuel savings if goods sold in the U.S. traveled less miles to reach the consumer.

The fuel savings also applies to imports. We should import everything we can from nearby countries like Canada and Mexico. Why buy things from such remote areas as Japan and China when we could get comparable items from neighboring countries?

By the way, this also applies to food and drinks. We can normally find that almost everything we usually eat is grown or produced less than 100 miles from our hometown grocer. If we read labels, we can buy produce, milk and baked goods from farms and bakeries near our home. Farmer’s markets are good places to find locally grown veggies.

Buy local: it will also cut down on the pollution created by hauling items long distances. Don’t assume something is made in America just because it’s made by a company with headquarters in the U.S. My car, a Toyota, was manufactured in Kentucky even if the Toyota headquarters is in Japan. Look inside the driver’s door of the vehicle to see where it was manufactured.  

There are items–like shoes–where we have little choice if we don’t purchase those “made in China”. And, I don’t always succeed in finding things I want made in America. But I try, thinking it will keep people who live nearby employed.