Critics of LNG are being terribly short sighted in attempting to enact protectionist policy in regards to LNG.

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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is continuing the previous Administration's lamentable protectionist policy of promoting a weak dollar as a means to reduce imports.

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European leaders said high prices showed the protectionist common agricultural policy needed to be preserved.

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So our common goals of ensuring that Britain is in Europe, and helping to run Europe, thereby achieving economic reform, changes to the protectionist common agricultural policy, reform of the structural funds, and so on, are made even more difficult.

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Brazil recently raised tariffs on hundreds of products, citing U.S. policy in defense of these protectionist policies.

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The government's response is a mix of short-term protectionist measures combined with modest steps towards more constructive longer-term policy changes.

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