In order to build all those EVs Biden wants for Other People many things are needed, including lithium and Boron
America Approves Colossal Nevada Mine With Enough Lithium for Untold Millions of Electric Cars
The Biden administration has approved a gigantic lithium and boron mine — and though the project could revolutionize America’s electric car industry, critics say it could also endanger the survival of a rare wildflower species.
As the Washington Post reports, the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in southern Nevada, roughly halfway between Las Vegas and Reno, could provide the country with an important source of the alkali metal, which is a crucial component of EV batteries.
According to the report, the mine could produce enough lithium for around 370,000 vehicles each year for more than two decades, giving the United States a massive leg up in the reproduction of electric cars. So far, the country has largely relied on lithium battery imports and has been home to just one operating lithium mine.
Obviously, the same enviro-weenies pushing for EVs have issues
Still, environmentalists have raised concerns about the mine endangering wildlife species that thrive in the area, as well as its water consumption. The area has been battling a historic drought, as WaPo points out.
How long till they sue?
The company behind the project, an Australia-based mining firm called Ioneer, tried to reassure the public during a call with reporters on Thursday.
The Biden regime couldn’t have found an American company to do this on American land? Really? They’re getting a $700 million loan from the DOE (which will probably never be paid back). Anyhow, the extreme-greens are worried about an endangered wildflower, and
(Las Vegas Review-Journal) An Australian mining company’s lithium-boron mine in Nevada passed all environmental hurdles on Thursday, and an environmental group immediately notified the federal government that it plans to sue.
In a letter to Interior Department officials, the Center for Biological Diversity announced its intention to file a lawsuit, calling the mine an unacceptable threat to an endangered wildflower known as Tiehm’s buckwheat. The organization’s successful campaign for an emergency listing under the Endangered Species Act greatly shifted the mine’s plan of operations, with more accommodations made for the plant.
You can bet there will be others, and they will jam up the project, meaning there is no way that it will open in 2028.
Isn’t your own state also trying to open a big lithium mine ?
Lithium is a father common element
The environmentalist whackos always seem to think that their ‘green’ ideas will run on fairy dust and unicorn farts. If they want battery-driven cars, then those cars will have to have batteries. Eventually those lawsuits will fail, but they could still delay the project by years. Sending more American dollars and jobs to China and Chile is no big deal, not if it means we can save an endangered wildflower!
Of course, our oh-so-diverse American liberals don’t really care if the environmental effects of lithium mining happen to the brown and yellow — can I still say ‘yellow’ for Chinese, or are they now brown? — people overseas.
There are two kinds of liberalism in the United States. There’s the welfare-based and reparations-hopeful liberalism, which always votes for more money for Their Own People, and that’s what motivates the black vote. And then there’s the white, elitist liberalism, that affects soccer moms and the oh-so-sympathetic women and beta males, who have no f(ornicating) idea how economics actually works, but just know, know! that it’s wholly unfair to Other People.
370,000 vehicles each year
This is why the AGW people are in La La land.
Let us extrapolate. 370,000 vehicles per year for 10 years means 3.7 million vehicles produced.
In 2022, approximately 10.06 million motor vehicles were produced in the United States, and over 80 million were produced worldwide.
So you can produce 375,000 vehicles which will cost 1 million plus per vehicle because only the rich can afford to buy the paltry amount of vehicles the world is creating.
After year 10, you must begin replacing most of those battery packs, further reducing the number of vehicles produced in years 11-20. As a result, you have a diminishing return, further escalating the price of vehicles for purchase.
Today, it costs 1 million to 11 million for exotic cars like Bugatti, McClaren, Lamborghini, etc. This is what we are facing in the next 20 years from the AGW NAZIS, with the industry coming nowhere near able to supply a demand for EVs.
In short this is just another ruse to become North Korea. Kim the elder told his people if you just give me your land I will provide you with food and EQUALITY. They all wanted equality so they signed their lives and land over to the state and as a result they have equality and starvation.
The left wishes to for Americans to sign their lives over to the government for equality and sustenance.
The Demographics of our nation is so drastically switching it is why the LEFT needs open borders. They do not care about SKIN COLOR as much as they care about POVERTY. They need impoverished Illegals to sign their lives over to the Democrats to keep themselves politically relevant.
AGW is just one of the many means to Californize the USA and to take away your land and your free will and your 1st and 2nd and 4th amendment rights in return for obedience to the billionaires so you can live in a high rise and eat a single meal per day and take a bus to a mandated job.
North Korea is the Template for the left today. It is relevant, The USSR is beyond the kids willing to sign it over because right now they are unable to move out of Mom’s house even with a college degree and a job.