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12. I don't see this as a problem.

Tue May 25, 2021, 01:22 PM

May 2021

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Exclusive: Biden looks abroad for electric vehicle metals, in blow to U.S. miners [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2021 OP

The Sky Is Falling ! Sky Is Falling ! DURHAM D May 2021 #1

I think this statement might say it all....... a kennedy May 2021 #3

Rare earth mining is dirty Metaphorical May 2021 #4

None of the elements the article mentions are rare earths mathematic May 2021 #7

'the US has a vast amount of lithium'? Not so. speak easy May 2021 #13

Is so. This issue is about opening up our lithium to mining mathematic May 2021 #16

'We have the lithium resources to mine' speak easy May 2021 #17

California, elsewhere in Nevada muriel_volestrangler May 2021 #24

OK. I was not aware of the Thacker Pass project. speak easy May 2021 #26

That's what I was thinking mathematic May 2021 #22

We need to save these minerals for when we have to leave the planet. maxsolomon May 2021 #5

There's geopolitics at work, also Warpy May 2021 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author speak easy May 2021 #14

It passes the environmental cost for the batteries on to other countries inwiththenew May 2021 #10

This will get played by rethuglicans Bayard May 2021 #11

I don't see this as a problem. George II May 2021 #12

I seem to recall a lot of abandoned mines causing problems. OneCrazyDiamond May 2021 #15

Do we even have the deposits of rare earths that we'd need... jmowreader May 2021 #19

This is such bullshit, miner-worship horseshit maxrandb May 2021 #25

With all the recycling and efficiency and demolition, we still mine metals? bucolic_frolic May 2021 #21

Hat tip to Lauren fucking Boebert? And on DU??? marble falls May 2021 #29

I wonder about the extraction and refining process captain queeg May 2021 #30