re: #96 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

California is full of rare earth elements, we just have to get rid of all those pesky environmental regulations and we can have at them

President Obama addressed this, calling it a national security issue. You’d be amazed to discover President Trump’s tariffs have actually hurt that programme.

Trump opened millions of acres of California to mining rare earths, but his tariffs mean that the companies which would like to do that cannot, because they cannot get the appropriate equipment.