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Melon

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16. Because our energy costs have been too high.

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Reply #15)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 12:23 AM

7 hrs ago

We don’t mine what we can’t process.
The US has 4 aluminum smelters left. Decades ago there were 40. This is the US offshoring manufacturing versus keeping the jobs and dollars here. If smelters are built the ore exists in the US to feed them.

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We're going to lose our Aerospace sector. [View all] OAITW r.2.0 13 hrs ago OP

We need to bring on more cheap reliable power. Nuclear generation etc. Melon 12 hrs ago #1

Why do we need more aluminum smelting? India is totally capable and cost effective. OAITW r.2.0 12 hrs ago #3

Trump will probably strike down the child labor laws. Haggard Celine 12 hrs ago #4

Why do I think there's only one kind of "labor" Trump wants children to do? CaptainTruth 10 hrs ago #10

Yes. Americans can work in aluminum smelting. Melon 9 hrs ago #14

We are not in the top 10 of bauxite producers. OAITW r.2.0 8 hrs ago #15

Because our energy costs have been too high. Melon 7 hrs ago #16

Just depressing and making us weak and vulnerable as a country vapor2 12 hrs ago #2

We need to kick these fascist fucks out of power, whatever it takes. Initech 12 hrs ago #5

Airplanes are built out of 2024-T6 Fichefinder 10 hrs ago #6

Back, when I had a company - before Trump.... OAITW r.2.0 10 hrs ago #12

not just that market a whole lot of other markets . AllaN01Bear 10 hrs ago #7

Oops, guess they can't complete the Canadian contract for F-35's, guess we have to go with Bev54 10 hrs ago #8

Russia and China love this plan IronLionZion 10 hrs ago #9

Many have quipped: littlemissmartypants 10 hrs ago #11

Yeah, I really don't want to think this. OAITW r.2.0 10 hrs ago #13

Genius. BurnDoubt 7 hrs ago #17