🚨BREAKTHROUGH: America can supply 85% of the WORLD'S rare earth elements (REEs)
Yes. WE can dominate exports.
Just like we became the world’s #1 oil exporter, we can do the same with REEs—and end our dependence on Communist China once and for all.
Here’s how: 👇🧵
Yes. WE can dominate exports.
Just like we became the world’s #1 oil exporter, we can do the same with REEs—and end our dependence on Communist China once and for all.
Here’s how: 👇🧵
2/🧠Rare earths power the modern world.
• Fighter jets
• Smartphones
• Missiles
• Satellites
• Electric cars
• Wind turbines
• Lasers & magnets
Without REEs, none of this works.
Right now, 70% of ours come from China. That can end NOW.
• Fighter jets
• Smartphones
• Missiles
• Satellites
• Electric cars
• Wind turbines
• Lasers & magnets
Without REEs, none of this works.
Right now, 70% of ours come from China. That can end NOW.
3/🇺🇸 It wasn’t always like this. America led the world in REEs.
California was once the global leader.
But in the Carter years, U.S. regulators misclassified rare earths, slapped on crushing rules, and handed the entire industry to China.
It’s time to take it back.
California was once the global leader.
But in the Carter years, U.S. regulators misclassified rare earths, slapped on crushing rules, and handed the entire industry to China.
It’s time to take it back.
4/ 🌎 The left loves to lecture about the environment. But they’re fine with importing from China, where mining is an environmental apocalypse.
• Air pollution
• Soil contamination
• Poisoned water
• Cancer clusters
But hey—it’s “green” if it happens far away, right?
• Air pollution
• Soil contamination
• Poisoned water
• Cancer clusters
But hey—it’s “green” if it happens far away, right?
5/ 💡Here’s the good news: We don’t need to choose between jobs and the environment.
U.S. researchers are already building tech to extract REEs from coal ash and polluted mine water.
That’s right: We can clean up the environment AND produce our own REEs!
U.S. researchers are already building tech to extract REEs from coal ash and polluted mine water.
That’s right: We can clean up the environment AND produce our own REEs!
6/📍The U.S. has enormous REE reserves, enough for the whole world:
• Coal seams in Appalachia
• Clay beds in the Midwest
• Acid mine drainage in Pennsylvania
• A newly discovered “mother lode” in Wyoming
We don’t need to mine China. We just need to mine smarter.
• Coal seams in Appalachia
• Clay beds in the Midwest
• Acid mine drainage in Pennsylvania
• A newly discovered “mother lode” in Wyoming
We don’t need to mine China. We just need to mine smarter.
7/⚠️ So what’s stopping us?
Decades of:
• Overregulation
• Short-sighted outsourcing
• Blind trust in Communist China
• Globalist economic policy
We let China dominate. Now, Trump’s tariffs and EO are putting an end to it.
Decades of:
• Overregulation
• Short-sighted outsourcing
• Blind trust in Communist China
• Globalist economic policy
We let China dominate. Now, Trump’s tariffs and EO are putting an end to it.
8/ 🔥Trump’s plan:
• Executive Order to declare REEs a national security issue
• Trade leverage to push production back to the U.S.
• Strategic deals with Ukraine, Congo, Greenland
• "Manhattan Project" R&D to build a U.S. supply chain
• Executive Order to declare REEs a national security issue
• Trade leverage to push production back to the U.S.
• Strategic deals with Ukraine, Congo, Greenland
• "Manhattan Project" R&D to build a U.S. supply chain
https://x.com/RodDMartin/status/1938696659732459862
9/ 📊 Experts say we already throw away enough REE-rich material to supply 85% of global demand.
Let that sink in.
We already have what we need. We just need the will to reclaim it.
Let that sink in.
We already have what we need. We just need the will to reclaim it.
10/🏁Bottom line:
China built a monopoly. Trump is smashing it.
We can produce rare earths at home. Clean. Efficient. Patriotic. And we can supply the world
Let’s power American, and global, freedom—and never depend on dictators again.
rodmartin.org/p/breakthrough…
China built a monopoly. Trump is smashing it.
We can produce rare earths at home. Clean. Efficient. Patriotic. And we can supply the world
Let’s power American, and global, freedom—and never depend on dictators again.
rodmartin.org/p/breakthrough…
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