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To: digger48
70% of all Cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the current rate of consumption, demand will outweigh supply by 2030. Then what?

Free market! Free market! Free market!

If the only people buying EV's were the people who wanted them without government coercion, then demand would go down.

Likewise, if the government got out of the way of U.S. miners to mine and produce our own minerals (including cobalt deposits in Minnesota), supply would go up.

The free market is always the best solution. If the topic is about EV's: free market. If the topic is about natural gas vs power: free market. If the topic is about the price of oil: free market. If the topic is about Russia's energy policies giving them too much control over Europe: free market.

16 posted on 06/12/2023 6:48:51 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Now that I’m retired, an EV would work for me

But 70k for a car doesn’t


17 posted on 06/12/2023 6:51:41 AM PDT by digger48
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