You think they’re against mining rare earths. Wait until we try to process them. That’s when it’ll get really ugly.
This is typical of the left. They try to undermine society in any way that they can. The oppose things that help the country, and when they win, they oppose the alternative so that they can continue to undermine the county. They wont stop opposing things until they have their revolution.
I think it’s important to realize that electric vehicles are not their goal.
They want us living in caves, surviving on nuts and berries, with a population of perhaps 20 million. They will oppose anything and everything until we are primitives.
They also don’t want us to extract the oil and natural gas that is used to make the plastics that are a major part of electric cars, up to about 50% by volume and 10% by weight.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-much-oil-electric-vehicle/
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But it will be just hunky dory when the Chinese start mining in Afganistan because they have such a great envirionmental track record.
Ping!....................
“This is hilarious! Environmentalists are against drilling for the lithium that’s necessary for electric cars.”
Sorry Dan, but if you understood the purpose of pushing cars, you’d then understand that there is NOTHING ‘hilarious’ about their position. Their position makes PERFECT SENSE.
Environmentalists are only interested in stopping the extraction of lithium in their back yard, notice there’s no environmentalist in Chile for stopping it there....
They’re against cars. Period.
(Except for themselves as needed, of course.)
The Panamint Valley is desolate.
These environmentalist whackos should be forced to live in a shack on top of one of those mountain ranges in the area.
They wouldn’t last a day.
Wait…. You mean the battery fairy doesn’t just crap them out?
I’m amazed that anyone might think that the “environmental” movement out this way has anything to do with preserving the environment.
It is manifestly anti-human. The activists consider themselves “chosen”, doing Gaia’s work. Their goal is to kill off all but those in their group - >7billion minimum.
Their lives are an unending fantasy; the reason they hate conservatives so much is we bring an intrusion of reality.
“A lithium mine would destroy these spectacular panoramas,”
Plenty of scenery without economic mineralization under it. Go look at that.
They think EVs run on magic dust.
Congress released a very thorough report about 4 years ago that flatly stated Russia puts big $ behind some big environmental groups. Like the Sierra Club. Hardly made the news.
Since then, no doubt china has dumped tons of cash into these same groups.
They fund Useful Idiots to shut down energy production in the US. Energy use is directly proportional to GDP. Cripple energy, cripple our country economically.
Probably the same brand of idiots that created all the forest fires in the West by convincing the politicians not to clear out all the flammable debris out of their forests.
Dem officials have already said the Biden Admin. is against mining lithium in the U.S. They want to import lithium from overseas. Apparently the computer chip shortage hasn’t taught them anything (and remember, they’ve begged OPEC to pump more oil).
Lithium is also used in some form to treat the mental health conditions that have inflicted so many of these self-described, self-anointed “protectors of the Earth” and “minders of everyone else’s business”.