Raw Materials and product balance for the US
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by Pearlswine
I've posted an estimate for daily US production over on google spreadsheets http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pi4EiQOnel6uTxEFuxt9tRw
This is an overestimate for actual values. I assumed a 1.25 trivia modifier and that everyone with a job in the US works every day.
Key conclusions:
-US is only producing ~1050 food per day. 1 food for every 5.5 people. When we run out of food it's going to hit us and hit us hard. Workers from weapons and gifts will need to shift over to food in order to keep up with demand in addition to people creating a lot of new companies in the grain (Q2) and food sectors (all quality). The situation is manageable, but the government will probably need to lend a large amount of gold to kick-start a few companies.
-Grain and Wood production are fairly well balanced. As workers gain skill RM production should even out with supply.
-US produces twice as much oil compared to what it consumes each day. It must be exported to avoid saturating the market.
-About 2/3 of the US diamond supply needs to be imported.
-A ton of iron will need to be imported to keep the weapons industry alive
-2 out of every 3 wood consumed is used to build a house. We are producing 4 times as many defense systems than hospitals at the moment.
-There are ~2530 people employed in the US.
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Nice article.
How low would you recommend setting diamond and iron import taxes considering we can't produce them very well domestically?
Archibal😛
It's a tough call. I wouldn't go below 20% , but I'd avoid anything over 60%. We want to encourage people to purchase export license and create a saturated market, but we don't want them swimming in American cash.
We also need to be careful to protect our domestic supply. An embargo of Iron from a country that controls 50% of our supply would kill our weapons production.
this is really useful!!!
That's a good point about domestic supply. The fact that skills are more general in V1 might help us rapidly start up some iron companies if it came to the worst.
Diamonds are a little less essential, so it might be worth trying to import a higher proportion there as compared to iron. We could try to encourage some foreign companies to start importing just to get the supply going.
Korea, if liberated, has promised to export their diamonds solely to the US. I don't know how well their RM industry is, but that would take some of the pressure off.
Awesome article.
awesome stuff as usual Pearl