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18. It's like keeping enough domestic fuel in the ground for national-security purposes in cases

Reply to mathematic (Reply #7)

Tue May 25, 2021, 02:54 PM

May 2021

of future unforeseen conflicts. We don't want to get it all out of the ground now when there's no conflict. We will start that once foreign sources deplete, in cases of conflicts (hard to predict, and preferably none).

When you think about how to prevent future crisis, it's your job if you're "good governing" and that's what we have now. DUers should not complain about having a prudent "good governing" executive now, compared to the past 4 1/2 years.

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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

Since when does POTUS tell corporations where to purchase their raw materials??????? groundloop May 2021 #2

The Federal Government can deny mining permits, forcing manufacturers to buy metals to buy metals Jose Garcia May 2021 #6

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

Yep,agree with you that's key, but some are shortsighted and can't see the forest for the trees. n/t iluvtennis May 2021 #27

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

You literally responded to a post that said US is #5 in the world in lithium reserves mathematic May 2021 #23

California, elsewhere in Nevada muriel_volestrangler May 2021 #24

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

It's like keeping enough domestic fuel in the ground for national-security purposes in cases Justice matters. May 2021 #18

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

The market was flooded worldwide a couple of years ago and demand has yet to build pecosbob May 2021 #9

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

Does "the miners" mean the mine owners? And if so, how is it a blow to them, seeing as how... Hekate May 2021 #20

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

Right. I'd be more impressed with "concern" for miners if they were not still dying of black lung Hekate May 2021 #28

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