re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth

So Trump says he’s going to bring back American steel and ALUMINUM!

I’m guessing he doesn’t know where the vast majority of bauxite is mined.

I only know what happens here: Recyclers are required to pay for aluminum cans. I got 54¢ a pound for one big batch a few years ago. They are not actually remade into ingots—instead there’s a huge mountain in Eastern Washington composed of crushed aluminum cans. Nobody is making new cans out of them, never mind airplanes—but we are giving the aluminum smelters essentially free electricity to smelt fresh aluminum from ore.