“...surely it would be cheaper to use the coal here, and produce the steel hear saving two trans-pacific shipping costs....”
Nope...highly unlikely when one considers the cost of meeting all the EPA, OSHA and all the other govt regulations and red tape. FWIW, Odongo closed down our last lead mine before he left office. IF we ever get in a real “shooting war”, we’ll have to buy lead from the Chinese to make more bullets.
we’ll have to buy lead from the Chinese to make more bullets.
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We get titanium from Russia which is also used to make rounds ... Back when, Clinton closed (or made it a park or some such) our largest deposit of rare earths.