“Critical minerals”
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1) They are not really that critical, mostly needed for the “Green” stuff.
If we just scale back that, we will be all OK.
2) These minerals are not that rare.
US used to have monopoly on them, but we foolishly gave it away.
The Mountain Pass mine is unfortunately located in CA, so the enviros kill it. If we could just move it few miles west to NV, we would probably still have that monopoly!
I meant East, durn! Why could we fix our own posts?!