Posted on 03/20/2022 5:57:55 PM PDT by george76
resident Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg were roundly mocked by conservatives last week for suggesting that working-class Americans struggling to pay the ever-climbing prices at the pump should consider simply buying an electric vehicle instead.
It was the Biden-era equivalent of Marie Antoinette’s (admittedly apocryphal) adage, “Let them eat cake.”
Yet this simple solution floated by Democrat elites might just be even more fantastical than expecting average Americans to be in the financial position to switch to an EV as they struggle to afford groceries.
Turns out, the U.S. doesn’t only rely on Russia for oil imports — it relies on Russia for materials used to make EVs as well.
Huh.
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As the average price of lithium-ion battery cells could see its first year-over-year increase, the invasion of Ukraine has pushed nickel prices to an 11-year high by fears that Russia’s exports of the metal could be disrupted.
All this translates, of course, to rising EV prices.
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It is not dissimilar to the outcome of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, when China waited patiently on the sidelines as Biden conducted his inept retreat ... ready to work with the Taliban to mine what could be the world’s largest lithium deposits.
China currently has a corner on the world’s lithium supplies, a fact Biden inadvertently and rather ironically drew attention to last month.
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“Let them eat cake” is now “Let them drive EVs,” i.e., “Let them rely on corrupt and authoritarian global superpowers to fuel their vehicles instead.”
Like Marie Antoinette, the elites couldn’t possibly be more out of touch.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
And Russian zinc and Russian nickle.
EVs require 13 minerals from 13 supply chains running through 60 countries. Half of them go through Russia.
Biden/Harris don’t mind bending over for Putin , they’re supplying both sides in the Ukraine invasion now
Gives new meaning to AMERICA FIRST.
Take a bus.
You can order a $80k Tesla today and have it in 6 or 7 months.
Otherwise take the bus and eat lentils.
No aluminum for you, come back two weeks.
And rare earths from China in the batteries.
The Toxic 900lb batteries
Russia doesn’t even rank in the top 6.
There are plenty of other suppliers of all those minerals.
“And Russian zinc and Russian nickle.”
And don’t forget the Russian platinum group metals. Hard to make a catalytic converter without them...and those metals are expensive NOW.
Of course, the metal sitting under our cars in those converters is “free”..., ask the people who have been stealing them with impunity.
Your out of touch with the All of US Communities. Not all of them have Buses!
Small towns do not, and people living in rural areas do not.
So your answer is as bad as Biden’s.
and if your income is 24,000 a year and your elderly how do you expect these people to pay for them. Oops. I know elderly living off of 900 dollars a month. And no buses to be used.
Those cars OPEC and Putin want you to buy?
Running them directly funds Russian and Muslim armies.
It gives Putin roughly $350M per day to pay Chechen and Arab Muslim fighters to rape and murder Ukrainian Christians.
Oil is a global fungible product whose priced is based on global supply and demand. Not local supply and demand.
There is no “My American based gasoline is exempt” from supporting this evil.
The purchase of a gallon of gasoline anywhere in the world supports the price of a barrel of oil everywhere in the world.
You support the vaccines, Ukraine, and electric vehicles. Tells me all I need to know about your “opinions.” 🤣
Bus fare prices are too high. Get a horse. On second thought, animal food prices are high too. What else is there? 😀🙃
This country has plenty of aluminum to recycle
If they actually were recycling it instead of often burying it in landfills
But who has the most Lithium?
Chinese lithium:
https://electrek.co/2021/11/01/tesla-secures-lithium-supply-contract-ganfeng-lithium/
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