{"id":64940,"date":"2026-08-06T05:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64940"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:20:57","slug":"becoming-supply-chain-independent-in-the-modern-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64940","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Supply Chain Independent In The Modern World"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, David Blackmon posted an article at Substack<\/a> about America expanding its production of rare earth metals.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The United States is finally starting to dig itself out of a rare earth metals hole it spent decades digging. The effort got a boost on July 29, when Energy Fuels announced<\/a> that construction has begun on a commercial-scale expansion at its White Mesa Mill in Utah. The expansion of the only fully licensed and operating conventional uranium processing facility in the United States, will enable the plant to produce heavy rare earth oxides at meaningful volumes. This key event, along with other developments in the U.S. and allied nations like Australia, represent concrete steps toward breaking China\u2019s chokehold on the materials that power everything from electric vehicle motors and humanoid robots to advanced weapons systems and data centers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heavy rare earths are the severe pinch point in current Western permanent magnet supply chains. These elements give high-performance magnets the coercivity and heat resistance needed for smaller, lighter, and more powerful motors. Energy Fuels already has commercial capacity for up to 1,000 tons per year of separated neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) oxide, the lighter rare earths that form the bulk of most magnets. The new circuits will add roughly 20 tons of terbium, 120 tons of dysprosium, 140 tons of samarium, 20 tons of europium, and 140 tons of gadolinium annually, with terbium and dysprosium online by the end of 2027 and the rest by the end of 2028.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is one of those articles I don’t claim to understand. However, I remember what it was like trying to buy a car in 2022. Because Covid had so totally disrupted the supply chain, the wait time for some cars was ridiculous, and there were surcharges on the purchase of almost all cars. America not only needs to be energy independent, we need to be rare earth independent, drug independent, and self sufficient in every way possible. Trade with other countries is fine–depending on other countries that may not have our best interests at heart for things that are essential to our survival is not fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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