“If you want to build EVs, one needs access to the entire suite of specialty chemicals, and the vast majority of those are produced in China – the issue is not the mining per se, but the refining wherein China utterly dominates most relevant chemicals,” says Mark Mills, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
“Or else one could wait 5 to 10 years – if you’re lucky – for non-Chinese refineries to be built.”Basically everything Tesla uses to produce its garishly ugly vehicles comes from China, which is essentially the recipient of all those government-funded, aka taxpayer-funded, “green” energy subsidies flying around these days.
Tesla would not exist, in fact, were it not for continued subsidization from American taxpayers. These are the people who have made Elon Musk a billionaire, and who are fueling the communist Chinese economy.
“China is hoping to gobble up and keep a stranglehold on this infrastructure so it is concerning that the administration is driving everyone to use electric vehicles,” says Dustin Carmack, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
Every year, Tesla manufactures about two million electric vehicles. The company plans to increase that number by about 50 percent per year, which means China will be receiving even more cash to produce all those batteries.
Thanks to incentives and other programs from the Biden regime, Ford and other car manufacturers are doing much the same, striking up deals with Chinese companies to produce needed battery packs.
Nothing about the EV paradigm in any way benefits America or Americans, by the way. Sure, some people think they are saving the planet by buying a Tesla, but the reality is that EV battery mining operations are filthy and highly polluting, and contribute nothing to the United States economy beyond enriching corrupt politicians and dodgy billionaires.
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