This, combined with the energy crunch in Europe due to the war in Ukraine, may be another strong signal we have less runway to get off of fossil fuel than we thought.
Meanwhile China is going to ban exports of rare earth.
This is going to get painful really quick if the US doesn't have alternative energy options.
Oil dependency is a national security issue, and the clowns who ignore or downplay that fact are indistinguishable from enemy agents (courtesy of gray's law [1])
This, combined with the energy crunch in Europe due to the war in Ukraine, may be another strong signal we have less runway to get off of fossil fuel than we thought.