Why, do you mean to imply the Left will one day be railing about wars for battery materials the way they rail against supposed wars for oil?
But more seriously, “green” will only matter while they are still trying to get “Red”, for once they think they’ve got that Red the greens will find they are just a nuisance that is no longer useful to the Reds.
True, first they will wage all out war against other Americans to subdue them, they go after every country’s resources so they cane have the only all electric system. After all, we have learned that there is only enough cobalt in the world to supply cars for less than 40% of our existing cars. And that doesn’t count the semi trucks or trains.