The hilarious part of this is that they think they can do this to get to something approaching parity/self-sufficiency with China’s level of Rare Earth Metals production, in like… no time at all.
That’s not even close to how any of this works, but okey dokey?
They’re literally the most incompetent economic planners / policy makers… at least since the Smoot Hawley tariffs.
Even if this all like, actually worked, without legal challenges, to … open up mining operations…
You… still have have to do all the rest of the industrial planning/policy to… make… any of this… make any actual sense, and that’s just… national heritage/environmental damage treated as moot.
But the administration’s goal isn’t to efficiently extract the lithium and use it effectively. The goal is to take a buried resource and auction off access to it to Trump’s rich buddies. In the process, Trump will collect enormous bribes to put his greasy thumb on the scale. After the bribes are collected, no on in the administration cares what happens and the auction winners can rape the land any way they want regardless of the final profitability.
The hilarious part of this is that they think they can do this to get to something approaching parity/self-sufficiency with China’s level of Rare Earth Metals production, in like… no time at all.
That’s not even close to how any of this works, but okey dokey?
They’re literally the most incompetent economic planners / policy makers… at least since the Smoot Hawley tariffs.
Even if this all like, actually worked, without legal challenges, to … open up mining operations…
You… still have have to do all the rest of the industrial planning/policy to… make… any of this… make any actual sense, and that’s just… national heritage/environmental damage treated as moot.
But the administration’s goal isn’t to efficiently extract the lithium and use it effectively. The goal is to take a buried resource and auction off access to it to Trump’s rich buddies. In the process, Trump will collect enormous bribes to put his greasy thumb on the scale. After the bribes are collected, no on in the administration cares what happens and the auction winners can rape the land any way they want regardless of the final profitability.
You’re right.
Silly me, stuck in the old way of thinking government’s are supposed to serve their people.
… I seem to be remember something important in American history, some… broad concept, a tea party or… some dude ridin a horse real fast…
I dunno, whatever.