Posted on 06/14/2021 7:02:30 AM PDT by Leaning Right
After years of planning, China now dominates the world’s production of new generation batteries that are key to transitioning away from fossil fuels. These new batteries are essential for electric vehicles and most portable consumer electronics such as cell phones and laptops.
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If those politicians get their way, China will obviously have a choke-hold on the entire automotive industry.
Food, clothes, batteries, pharmaceuticals etc etc etc... what don’t the CCP ChiComms control?
America and the west gave it to them.
Leftists don’t want dirty mining for things like graphite and rare earths
Leftists don’t want the production plants necessary to refine these things
Leftists and our corporate overlords would happily then ship the business to China to save a buck.
Food.
They can’t feed themselves, and it drives them crazy.
We could halt food shipments to them, and they would starve in about 2 years. Their crops are unreliable, and of the wrong type.
They love our soybeans to fatten hogs for pork. No soy, no hogs, no meat, just local veges. Unless it rains too much, like this year and last.
“failures and inadequate state reserves have diminished available global corn supplies and pushed prices higher.
Late last summer it was apparent that problems with Chinese agricultural production had forced China’s hand; the Asian giant had already surpassed its total annual corn import estimates on day one of the new crop year that began September 1, 2020. Now, less than eight months into the same crop year, it seems China’s agricultural woes were worse than imagined, and global agricultural markets, particularly corn markets, have felt the effects of China’s corn crop deficit.
China is importing more corn than ever before; actual monthly corn imports surged in March 2021”
If we quit the ethanol boondoggle, think of how much more corn and soybeans we could export, like we did before the IA Corn Farmers Ass’n/US Gov’t started this crap.
Think how many millions of acres of Amazon Rain Forest would still be standing rather than having been plowed under to supply the food we now put in our tanks.
Big Government Environmentalism at its finest.
Depressing isn’t it?
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