You can’t extract minerals from where they don’t exist. No law will change that.

We shouldn’t be relying on foreign manufacturers to meet our demands, our country is large and diverse enough to do it on our own.

Except for the fact that there are many necessary minerals for these batteries that are overwhelmingly located in China, and not present in meaningful quantities in the Americas. China is in a position of strong leverage here since they can control the price of mineral export even if our manufacturing ramps up.

Eh, I think it’s far better for the nation for him to lose than to die before that happens.