$1,000 up! $100,000 a ton for nickel to make batteries! No electric car in near future. $top!
The ecological cost was not a showstopper but commodity prices went thru the stop trade roof w/ copper, cobalt, & other components making gold cheap in 2022.
Is this a world that thinks sacrificing national parks for metal ores that are needed in the world of electric cars, for the same issues that matter computers and all the great technology, it takes these rare minerals? So much that is necessary for the development of these cars is also oil and gas-related as you must have heat, lots of it for the smelting metal from ore, of getting gold, silver, lithium, copper, aluminum and so much more. Truly the world is going crazy if it expects to excavate the best places on Earth and turn them into surface mining wastelands. Why not trend toward a simpler life with less environmental damage, less pesticides, and much more that is a problem if we keep up the bad behavior individually.
From the body and the mind comes the evidence of Spirit but what is the effect on reality, on you and me of those who disagree with living in peace. The truth is horrible, lost in propaganda and distraction. So sad to see the world watching and falling into the trap of going to war again. There is a problem as we drive up the costs of all things and worse, potentially a war that would wipe out most of mankind without thinking of the animals, the environment, the atmosphere heating up from bombs faster than the fuel in your car. What is the logic if you want a green planet?
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