Why Kamala Harris says we need a national reserve for critical minerals

Source: Yahoo

Kamala Harris doesn’t just want to build more factories in the US if elected president. She also wants to help secure steady supplies of materials to fuel them.

A recent promise that embodies this approach is her proposed establishment of a "national reserve" of critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, and nickel — the crucial building blocks in everything from electric vehicle batteries to jet engines to medical devices.

Such a new reserve could join existing government reserves like the Department of Energy's strategic petroleum reserve and put a Harris administration in competition with Chinese businesses that have long dominated the work of mining and refining these metals.

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