@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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxwF93wnRQo&t=706s&ab_channel=gordonmcdowell