[G.Mason]

" ... Besides, a nation which refuses to develop its own resources has no right to complain about the price of imported resources."

How about you figuring out how to develop a few thousand tons, a year, of the following strategic materials, so we don't have to import them ...

Titanium

Nickel

Chromium

Cobalt

Aluminum

Colombium

and Tantalum

Thanks in advance.

[Jeff Chandler]

Titanium Nickel Chromium Cobalt Aluminum Colombium and Tantalum

Do we have those materials in the ground ? We have plenty of oil in the ground.

[RightWhale]

If the US is cut off from Russia and South Africa and can't get some of these stregic metals, they are available through asteroid mining. The 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is the only serious obstacle.