Michael Barone in dailyherald:
Are we watching a replay of King Canute commanding the waves to recede? That thought occurred to me while reading about the Biden administration's latest step in advancing the president's 2021 goal of having half of all new autos be electric by 2030.
White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi expresses confidence that"the ingenuity of American workers and American industry" can produce this enormous manufacturing and supply chain transformation -- all of which sounds like the courtiers' confidence that Canute could command the waves. by signing up you agree to our terms of service Nearly half the world's copper is produced in politically unstable Peru and Chile. A big new mine opening in Mongolia is inconveniently landlocked between China and Russia. And car batteries require cobalt, some 70% of which is produced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under working conditions you don't want to know about.
By the way, the states with the biggest political support for renewables don't, unfortunately, have much reliable wind and sunshine. Current wind production is highest in the Great Plains, including Texas. Solar power provides only 16% of California's electricity, whereas hydropower is limited outside the Pacific Northwest.
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