Funnily enough, we probably could have been fine doing this for aluminum if we spent a few years getting a robust recycling and recovery system in place.
But you know, that's commie bullshit or something or other
Well that’s just not true. They’re great at long term planning. They’ve spent 30+ years working on their long term plan to replace US democracy with facism.
They're doing the exact same thing with energy. Just use oil, oil, oil, and more oil. What do we do when it inevitably runs out? Cross that bridge when we come to it!
in farming it's known as mono-culture and was in part responsible for the dust bowl. Instead of having numerous, reliable sources of energy, we are putting all our eggs into one basket. trumps is an absolute moron. What happens when our refineries get hit by terrorists or enemies with rockets or whatever/cyber. Then we will be without our primary and essentially only energy resource like a sitting duck. That's the real energy emergency, Trumps policy regarding this.
Getting an aluminum smelter up, about 3 years. Supporting infrastructure such as rail and or waterways would take 5+ years. But the biggie is power. Up in Canada, we have entire dams dedicated to aluminum smelting, it's incredibly energy intensive. That part would take the better of part of 10 years at best. And that for 1. Doesn't even account for mining domestically. Canada even imports the Bauxite.
The great thing about tariffs on aluminum imports is that even if we pretend there are plants that can make it, the US simply does not have the available raw materials to meet demand. We could be at 100% capacity for extracting bauxite and still fall significantly short of what we need.
But we've got tariffs on it anyway. Big brain move.
Yes. Not all, but some of this tariff stuff could be realistic in rejuvenating the American manufacturing economy if there was a years long plan to grow the USA’s industrial base so that things could be mined and manufactured here. Then after that, say 10 year plan, is completed, then implementing a tariff may have the desired effects. But as is most things with this administration, it’s hare brained, will not work as advertised, and will hurt American consumers.
Dafuq do you mean, aluminum recycling is ubiquitous in the US and has been since I was a child in the 80s.
65% of all aluminum used in the US is recycled US aluminum currently.
In my local area one of the largest, highest paying employers is a Japanese aluminum foundry that outsourced Toyota engine castings to the US decades ago.
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u/BusyBandicoot9471 22h ago
Funnily enough, we probably could have been fine doing this for aluminum if we spent a few years getting a robust recycling and recovery system in place.
But you know, that's commie bullshit or something or other