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You’d be crazy to buy a car based on its shiny exterior, dazzling instruments, and gorgeous leather interior — without examining the engine or taking a test drive. Yet that’s essentially how America has handled the metals and minerals that are vital to our defense, medical, communication, automotive, aerospace, lasers, computer/AI/data centers, and every other sector of our economy. They are worth multi-trillions of dollars and are the foundation for jobs, living standards, national security, “green” energy and more. In the Stone Age, humans relied on flint and obsidian. The Bronze Age utilized copper, tin, and lead, plus gold and silver. [...]
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright went to Wyoming last week to cut the ribbon on the first new rare earth mine in the U.S. since the 1950s.
We used to mine 90% of our own rare earths—now we import 90%, mostly from China.
Green energy plans require major increases in U.S. mining and processing – unless they want to make America even more dependent on China and Russia.
China has the ability to quickly strangle the U.S. and the rest of the western world with its near monopoly of rare earths.
Two years ago, China decided to limit its exports of rare earths. Other countries, led by the United States and Australia, decided to enter the fray. Now the U.S. may take the lead.
It’s good to see a president who has zero patience for wind, solar, and giant battery schemes because he understands one simple truth: We must have reliable, affordable, dispatchable energy .
From mining for critical minerals to the construction of pipelines, roads, bridges, and tunnels, efforts to upgrade America’s infrastructure continue to be tied up in red tape.