On Tue, 25 May 2021 20:05:10 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 05/25/2021 06:26 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 25 May 2021 14:40:28 -0700 (PDT), Dean Hoffman
wrote:

On Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 4:14:43 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

A bunch cut.

WTF does China have to do with us driving cars. You keep bringing a
straw man into it. We can ask but we cannot make China do anything.
Lets keep on topic.

More cut.

The world will need a lot of critical materials if we go to EVs if this is right.

" Indeed, a global energy transition like the one President Biden insists upon will send the need for critical materials skyrocketing by 2040:

Lithium: +4,200%
Graphite: +2,500%
Nickel: +1,900%
Rare-earths: +700%

The U.S. is setting itself up for major geopolitical risk: according to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, China provides more than 85% of the world’s rare-earths and holds 67% of the global supply of scarce metals and minerals. The U.S. itself imports some 80% of its rare-earths from China.

China also controls the supply chains, utilizing its widening Belt and Road Initiative that now encompasses 45 countries (more aptly termed “partners”). We have already seen the devastation that such Chinese supply dominance can bring. If we don’t start thinking more strategically, we are on a path toward cartel dependence. Given the urgency of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is a possibility that we simply cannot afford."

From
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/05/21/climate_change_and_the_energy_transition_demand_a_ us_mining_revolution_778126.html

Then there's the environmental devastation caused by the mining
operations. No one cares, though, because it's in China. One of the
reasons much of our manufacturing has moved.


I'm sure the Thacker Pass lithium mine will be environmentally
sensitive. Don't matter. A tourist in his Tesla would have to be very,
very lost to ever happen by. afaik the nearest whorehouse and casino is
in Winnemucca.

Do you think the US can produce all of the lithium it needs?

I always got a chuckle out of the sign in the whorehouse parking lot.
'Bull haulers, please park your rigs elsewhere'. I guess nothing spoils
the mood more than a bull wagon full of cows.

Not a very good advertisement for their product.