@Tfmonkey This video is ten years old. I personally know Jim Kennedy. We've had the ability to produce domestic rare earths for over a decade now, but political interests and regulatory capture has been cockblocking it for decades. America deserves to violently implode because it refuses to reign in its insane bureaucracy that makes business impossible.

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@Engineer the issue is refining rare earths is environmentally damaging, which is why we prefer China to pollute for us.

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@Tfmonkey You're right, but its so much worse than just "pollution." You see, by far the largest percentage of the "pollution" thats created from refining monazite sands (where rare earths come from) is thorium. If only we had a use for all this waste, excessive, slightly radioactive thorium. Golly gee, what a shame.

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