Me too. I'm for energy diversification, mainly for my family. (My wife and I have both an ICE car and an EV so that if the Dim control freaks mess up one energy source we have at least one car based on another energy source.) So I'm for a free market of both oil supply and electrical supply (including electrical storage like lithium batteries). I'm also for energy independence as a nation (as you alluded to hating our lithium coming solely from China).
And like you I can't stand the forcing of EV's onto us.
There isn’t enough Lithium on three Earth’s to do what they want to do. It’s a gigantic boondoggle.
Coal powered cars with batteries dug from mines that will do actual permanent environmental damage to the Earth.
It is literally the stupidest idea in the last 100 years, and the Globalists went with it because of its ironic absurdity.
Actually, we have ONE small active Lithium mine in the US.
It is located at Silverpeak NV.
It is nowhere near large enough to meet demand.