Posted on 10/16/2025 8:40:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
You can count on the democRATs to oppose mining and refining. The EPA will have to be reigned in and care will have to be taken in refining plant process selection and facility design.
Yup—this is a classic case where China is not the problem.
Democrats and leftists are.
That was an unusually well-reasoned and written piece. The writer is meaured in his rhetoric, and full explians each point without ignoring or dismissing objections. thank you for that.
I think when the right people (which includes the right money) want movement, brifges are made, and bariers are lowered. AI wants electricity, and Google and Amazon and Microsoft are getting movement are micro-nukes that would have been completely out-of-bounds a decade ago.
1) never allow the Gaia Worshipers to sabotage national security and industrial independence like this again.
2) Cooperate with and pool resources with close allies to the greatest extent possible to ensure independent supply
3) Maintain larger stockpiles for national security. We should be doing the same with grains, metals, oil, weapons, medicines and ammunition
Just start the Greenland invasion already
Stop hyperventilating. period.
The 17 rare earth elements (REEs) are: lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium (the 15 lanthanides), along with scandium and yttrium. Despite their name, most are relatively abundant in the Earth’s crust, but they are difficult to separate from one another and are not often found in concentrated deposits. Most ree deposits do not have all the rees.
“...difficult to separate from one another...” is an understatement. Often they are chemically very similar to other ree’s, so require strong caustic solvents at high temperature and pressure to separate them. Which produces a lot of very toxic pollutants.
Several sites have been proposed, all shut down by treehuggers.
The EPA will have to be ended.It is a bureacuracy set up for power accumulation first and foremost.
One of the best explicatory articles I have read about anything.
A lot of this scenario will depend on the 2026 and especially the 2028 elections. A pro-China and anti-U.S. Congress and/or administration could stop the whole thing.
For a time, at least, the tree huggers are being separated from the trees.
“China accuses U.S. of deliberately causing panic over rare earth controls, says it is open to talks”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/china-trump-xi-rare-earth-tariff-trade-war.html
Not like we don’t have them here, but dims love to practice NIMBY while using their cell phones and driving there coal powered er ah electric cars full of rare earth(actually not so rare) metals
I can’t put a toilet in my house without 100 bureaucrats signing off and 1000s of pages of regulations.
You’re right. No way in hell the bureaucrat class will allow a single shovel of dirt to start new mines and processing centers.
You can count on the democRATs to oppose mining and refining. The EPA will have to be reigned in and care will have to be taken in refining plant process selection and facility design.
<>
It has been the democrats plan for a long time to de-industrialize America.
Mining and refining them, however, is often very expensive and very complex.
From memory...
China is the ONLY refiner for many of the most important Rare Earth minerals.
“At its 2023 Investor Day, Tesla engineers announced that the next-generation drive unit will use zero rare earth elements entirely, relying on optimized stator design and high-coercivity ferrite or alternative magnet materials.”
So is Tesla’s use going to be “zero” in December because they’re not needed, or not available?
What about Ford’s need?
GM’s need?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.