[CatOwner]

Did I read correctly that there aren’t enough rare Earth metals on this planet needed for the batteries to sustain an electric vehicle for every person in California, let along the entire country?

[MinorityRepublican]

Did I read correctly that there aren’t enough rare Earth metals on this planet needed for the batteries to sustain an electric vehicle for every person in California, let along the entire country?

No worries. We can use public transportation. That's what they do in Pyongyang.

[Jim Noble]

Did I read correctly that there aren’t enough rare Earth metals on this planet needed for the batteries to sustain an electric vehicle for every person in California

Correct, and there are also not enough child slaves to dig the cadmium and cobalt out of the ground in Africa with their bare hands.

[Elsie]

And to think that in 1963, I rode a 50 cc Honda motorcycle over BILLIONS of dollars worth of lithium in the Nevada desert (Silver Peak) and had no clue it was below me.

It appeared that no one knew the value either, as SP was a ghost town with a swimming pool full of tumbleweeds as I passed thru.