a Diversified CHEAP energy Economy vs. Lithium Monopoly? Some Claim a Lithium monopoly will replace the Oil monopoly; let’s talk about what Lithium CAN’T do – August 25, 2023
So, I’m reading a lot from people who are HEAVILY invested in lithium; I know some of you reading this likely fell for the “climate change hoax.” I’m on the financial side of things, and in the early days, only a handful of CORPORATISTS imagined that they’d be able to pull of this type of global SCAM.
As I’ve written in prior posts, even some influential Saudis and other members of OPEC got in on this scam EARLY on because the idea was that the fossil fuel market was getting way to competitive and was threatening OPEC’s dominance in the cheap energy space.
There is always a lot of noise that oil needs to be a certain price for non-OPEC members to be competitive; this is pure nonsense. With the money WASTED on the welfare states in most developed nations, the truth is that prices are relatively level all over the world because you have to remember that there’s a cost of SHIPPING, refining, etc. that a lot of people ignore.
Now that the climate change and global warming scam is widely accepted as fact, there is now an aggressive push to make sure that Western governments price out their domestic energy producers.
For the most part, this climate change scam has been a huge success in Europe., Germany of all places, became dependent enough on Russia that Russia was able to launch a successful war campaign against Ukraine.
Via the climate change scammers, Russia is essentially printing money and because Russia doesn’t have the giant welfare state you see in Western Countries, Russia’s COSTS to produce energy remain relatively low and affordable for the average Russian citizen.
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Although this may sound opposite to what you’re being told by the mainstream media, Russia is appearing to be HUMANE in its war against Ukraine. People tend to forget Russia has more Nukes than the United States and would likely defeat the U.S. if the two were to go to war, but the concept from the heads of the Russian side is to make Ukraine submit, which would have happened already had it not been for NATO.
But wars are expensive, resources are scarce, and Russia is playing a war attrition with NATO, which says a lot considering that NATO consists of, I think 31 member countries. Now, everyone knows NATO is mostly America and other countries who want to benefit from the might of the U.S. military, but the mere fact that Russia(a Nuclear power) doesn’t feel the need to rush this war should tell you how bankrupt this war on CHEAP ENERGY is making the western world.
Many of us operate in the fiat money world in which the United States and the European Union dominate, but money is still supposed to be backed by REAL STUFF, like commodities. Sure, the U.S. might have the dominant currency, but if OPEC+ nations can CHEAPLY produce the energy that in the demand currency wants, who is in the driver’s seat?
A lot of the currency in existence today is BORROWED into existence, I hear a lot of nonsense about a DIGITAL dollar, but right there, you’re playing with PROPERTY rights if you do something like that because physical cash is decentralized once printed; digital cash, even digital cash on the blockchain can be traced and tracked.
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What I’m getting at here is that the producers of fossil fuels, as well as lithium, are not Western nations, so the Lithium monopoly is quickly turning into a new OPEC that is presently being dominated by China and Russia.
Recently, Russia has been trying to make deals with a number of different African nations; China has already made similar deals with these African nations that have cobalt. China is also making its presence felt in Latin America, Chile has the largest lithium reserves worldwide by a large margin. Australia comes in second, with reserves estimated at 6.2 million metric tons in 2022, and if you’re unaware, Australia does a lot of and is heavily reliant on it’s trade with China.
What Western nations are getting is the enjoyment of having a stronger currency, but that reliance is still being supported by OPEC+ nations as well as BRICS nations.
Julius Malema leader of South Africa’s third-largest political party called the EFF, is open about his belief in socialism for Africa. France, which embraces a far Progressive form of politics, has left its former African colonies in disarray and this is allowing Russia to further destabilize that region.
What I’m not saying is that overnight there will be a new world order, but what I am saying is that this push for more EXPENSIVE energy by the Western world is creating a global economy in which the Western nations become increasingly more dependent on Russia and China as well as the strength in their fiat currencies.
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This reliance on their strong fiat currencies is allowing lithium to be controlled by China, So what we could have in the near future is OPEC+Russia+China. Almost all the lithium batteries that you take for granted are being produced in China; China is by necessity, the largest consumer of lithium in the world, and in most cases, they’re shipping the finished lithium product to Western nations because, in most circumstances, western nations not have the capacity to make lithium on their own.
You have to remember that when you declare war on fossil fuels, you’re making PRODUCTION costs more expensive, so even if American companies for example, wanted to make Lithium in America, they couldn’t because it’s just too expensive.
There are no labor unions in China; the only labor union allowed in China is the Chinese Communist Party, and whenever the economy is slowing, the Chinese Communist Party will manipulate the value of its currency and drive down production costs because, after all, China has no welfare state to subsidize and if dirty coal keeps their economy afloat dirty coal is what they’ll use to produce energy.
Capitalism is known to DRIVE DOWN the cost of production, but Progressive agendas aim to make the cost of production more expensive, meaning that productive Americans will be INCENTIVIZED to do their production overseas and accept whatever tariffs come with importing the finished product to America.
In closing, I remind the reader that there’s a lot lithium DOES NOT do. People tend to forget that Lithium citrate is used as a mood stabilizer. Lithium does other things than produce energy, but it’s far more scarce than other energy sources, and it’s actually more volatile and explosive than other energy sources, If more homes are powered by Lithium let’s hope those homes don’t catch fire, because a lithium fire can last for weeks.
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Remember, Lithium is used for energy storage if energy can be stored in lithium, it means that it draws in HEAT. So let’s say more Western homes and cars are powered by Lithium, and there’s a hot war with Russia, then potentially; more places in Western nations will have the potential to burn for WEEKS after Russia or terrorists detonate bombs!
Now, nobody talks about this stuff, you see Once a gas line explodes, it’s one huge explosion, and that’s it, but if a lithium explosion and a nuclear explosion are different, this is why these one-size-fits-all all solutions need to be reconsidered, I’ve always been a fan of a DIVERSIFIED energy economy.
Interesting times ahead!