House GOP: Fix ‘Critical Mineral’ Shortage

The Biden administration’s “rush-to-green energy policies” designed to create a “net-zero carbon power sector” by 2035 are causing economic upheaval and making the United States reliant on imported minerals and products, including from China, several witnesses warned during nearly 10 hours of hearings before House committees Feb. 7-9 in Washington.
While “promising utopia,” critics say the administration is steaming ahead in pushing electric vehicles (EVs), for instance, without a domestic supply chain to support it, inducing demand for imported lithium and EV batteries.
China controls more than 80 percent of the global markets for raw lithium and batteries, making the Chinese Communist Party among beneficiaries of Biden’s energy policies, witnesses and Republican panel members agreed….}