re: #186 Indy GOP Refugee

Those rare precious metals are catalysts. That means they recycle almost completely.

That doesn’t really help you when you’re buying them for the first time or ramping up your production, both things a developing economy faces. All it does is provide a slight rebate on maintenance costs.

No these things are not cheap. Nothing about industrial scale energy is cheap. Not the copper for lines, the hardware to drill, not the refineries themselves.

Not sure what the point here is. Countries like China don’t use shitty fuel because it saves us money, it doesn’t. It saves them money. The fuel they prefer and buy in bulk doesn’t drive down the cost of our fuel sources, because we’re competing with other developed economies that have modern environmental standards for our fuel. We buy it because the alternative is unacceptable. Getting that unacceptable alternative to market more cheaply doesn’t help us much, if at all.