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Hoodafan

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No, you don't hear my argument right at all. My argument pertains to the


realities that exist in rare earths and other minerals needed, as well as the mining and other processes involved, to get to where you want to force us to, China's dominance in those industries forcing us to fund them in our process of getting there on our own, and not moving from our energy dependence on the ME for the first part of my life, to one on another of the "bad actor countries".

We can be energy independent and are a dominant player in the world for oil and even more so Nat Gas. Nuclear and hydro can greatly minimize any dependence we have in those areas. Energy demand is unavoidable, and can also be a great leveler to make us competitive with lower wage cost countries. IMHO it's one of the most important things over which we should not be beholden to anyone to have what we need. I have no interest in replacing "war for oil" with "war for minerals".

And I'm not that young unfortunately. Although not nearly as old as some HoodaDSers around here want to portray, and I do hope to have more than 20 yrs left here. :-)

(In response to this post by Plano Hoo)

Posted: 03/03/2022 at 7:22PM



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