Comments by "" (@ericsaxon5736) on "The End of the Oil Industry in Colombia?" video.

The question is, are the people in the country who are not producing oil, actually producing anything of true value to other countries? Colombia has other things it can produce, extract and export but would that make their products desirable at a reasonable price?
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@javiermontoya3018 I've been to S America, you guys do have delicious fruit, if you could just get it to your ports, I'm sure American would love to buy them and Colombia is one of the few countries with the exceptional geographic option of exporting to both the East and West Coasts of the United States. Perhaps Colombia should invest in port infrastructure on their West Coast in order to be able to split trade both ways, I think it would be a good potential future avenue of trade.
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@javiermontoya3018 One of the major issues in any nation state, is that a supply cannot be made available if there is nowhere for it to go. A small farmer in Colombia will never plant 10 or 100 more fruit trees if the fruit is going to just rot on the ground. And absolutely no one will make an effort to clear 1,000 hectares to grow those fruits if they have no way to export them because there is no road that leads to a port that will ship the product to where it is welcome. I was born in Poland, which has historically been the breadbasket of Western Europe between 1100 AD and 1600 AD. Our rivers transported grain towards the Baltic Sea to be shipped to Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, Germany, and France. In return, French wines, Dutch cloth, and English and Scandinavian metals and finished goods made their way back to Poland. But none of that would be possible without the Port City of Danzig which facilitated these exports and imports of goods. If you want to sell products on the Western Coast of the United States and Canada, there are about 80 million customers waiting for your goods. But until your government invests and builds that port town and a road that connects it, that customer base is lost to you. The Pacific side of Colombia is ripe for exploitation. Beautiful beaches, resort towns, beach front properties for retiring Americans, these are all options on the table, that currently Mexico and Costa Rica are welcoming. Is Colombia? And yes, I understand xenophobia, and 'Americans will own our country' but the only way Colombia grows rich and prosperous is if LEGITIMATE American dollars flow in and that can only happen if Americans have a reason to show up, live, party and spend their vacation $$s..
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@neyson220293 Do they? You sure about that? I'm going on a Cruise to Puerto Vallarta, its a 4 day cruise round-trip from Los Angeles. That's there and back. I have a hard time believing that Colombia's western coast is more than 4 days, at cruising speed from the Port of Los Angeles. So how dedicated to that "transported and refrigerated FOR WEEKS" statement are you?
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@neyson220293 I'm not here to be your therapist. If you have a gripe with climate crisis politics then you should go debate someone else. I neither spoke about climate nor am I interested in discussing it. As for free markets, they can't really exist without government infrastructure that makes them 'free.' Even here in the US, ports, roads, and bridges need to be built by the government. If Columbia does not build these facilities, then there can be no trade, which is what my second post alluded to.
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