Woke : “Having the ability to deny reality and to formulate a bizarre fantasy world that can never be achieved.” Richard Carpenter

One tiny slice of the fantasy world — start here:

Ford CEO reveals EV reality: America 'cannot continue to import' batteries, earth minerals

No one makes more full-size trucks than we do in America. We have to on-shore this stuff," Ford Motor Company president and CEO Jim Farley told "Fox & Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade on Friday. "We have to have mines and processing to build a digital economy here in the U.S. We cannot continue to import batteries and rare earth from overseas. We have to move it to America."

"We're willing to invest," Farley continued, "but we have to have people in partnership with government that's going to improve mines, improve processing. These sites are really important. We can build all the plants, but what's the good if we're importing batteries?"

Okay, that sounds reasonable — we’ll need lots of rare earths and other minerals to make the batteries that will power our new national fleet of battery cars. How are we addressing that need? Like this:

March 24, 2023: Biden’s “Historic Mistake” in Nevada

President Biden on Tuesday used his authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906 to designate two new national monuments—a massive one in Nevada, and the 7,000-acre area Castner Range National Monument, formerly a U.S. Army training site in El Paso, Texas.

Of the 506,000-acre Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern Nevada, Biden called it a "place of reverence, a place of spirituality, a place of healing," and one that "will now be recognized for the significance it holds and be preserved forever."

The land is considered sacred to about a dozen tribes in the area, and advocates have been pushing for its designation for decades. But Lombardo expressed frustration over the administration's "unilateral action" and economic impact of the move. 

The newly-minted national monument, located near multiple national wilderness areas including the Mojave Desert, is home to both significant mineral reserves and land where energy developers have proposed large renewable energy projects. Nevada contains massive deposits of lithium, a key mineral for green energy technologies like electric vehicle batteries.

In 2015, Crescent Peak Renewables, a subsidiary of a Swedish energy firm, proposed a 500-megawatt wind energy project across more than 30,000 acres of federal lands in the area where Biden declared the monument. The Trump administration ultimately denied approving permits for the project, citing the 306 active mining claims that would be disturbed by its construction.

Then, last year, the company proposed a scaled-down version of the project across nearly 5,000 acres. However, the entire project is unlikely to move forward since it is entirely located in the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. (Fox News)

"The federal confiscation of 506,814 acres of Nevada land is a historic mistake that will cost Nevadans for generations to come," [Governor] Lombardo added. 

This was not an unprecedented move by our president, siding with “environmentalists” in their battle against mining, he’s ben doing it since he took over. Two years ago, after canceling Keystone X and offshore drilling permits, Jolting Joe moved inland:

October 8, 2021: Biden expands Bears Ears and other National Monuments, reversing Trump’s cuts

Biden’s decision on the monuments, while expected, remains controversial, particularly in Utah. Miners are interested in the area for its stores of uranium and other minerals. Ranchers also use the land for grazing cattle. The area is popular with tourists, RV campers and those who ride off-road vehicles.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) and the state’s congressional delegation have argued that land use rules for the area should be established by legislation, rather than executive order, to avoid regular changes to the boundaries by future presidents.

“President Biden’s decision to expand the monuments is disappointing, though not surprising,” Cox said in a statement along with other Utah officials. “For the past 10 months, we have consistently offered to work with the Biden administration on a permanent, legislative solution, one that would end the perpetual enlarging and shrinking of these monuments and bring certainty to their management.”

It’s not just mining that the utopiasts reject; they don’t want hydropower, either. Yesterday, Joe announced that he’s on their side:

March 24, 2023: Biden considering tearing down key green energy source over “eco concerns” —Four hydro-power dams may be shut down to “save the salmon” despite the federal government’s own studies showing that the fish and the dams are getting along quite nicely,, thank you.

Overall, hydropower accounted for 67% of Washington's electricity generation in 2022, making the state by far the largest producer of hydropower. Electricity from the state's hydropower alone represents 10% of the nation's total renewable energy-generated electricity.

From Maine to Michigan, California to Colorado, the same greens screaming for an end to fossil fuels are blocking the development of mines (in Maine, for instance, state law has blocked the development of one of the world’s largest lithium deposits, discovered in 2021, and voters stopped the construction of a power transmission line that would have carried Canadian hydropower to New England), solar farms, windmills, and new transmission lines. And everywhere, state regulators are disallowing utility rate hikes that would pay for upgrading their systems to accommodate “two-way” grids that are required for the variable energy wind and solar provides. “We the People” want cheap, abundant energy, pristine forests and prairies, and egg in our beer. Our politicians are only too happy to promise all of that, hoping that they’ll be long gone before the charade collapses and the dupes awake.