From the investment side of things I know one of the things that I hear as I'm talking to folks is you don't give us any...
I think it's hard when you pick up the phone and you call an agency and there's no one there on Friday to answer the pho...
We think about it more not just in terms of rare Earths, but also in terms of strategic minerals.
We can and we should work with China wherever possible to make progress on our energy challenges.
It's become popular, particularly when focused on energy policy to say that we're falling behind China in sort of a clea...
I appreciate the comments.
Typically it comes from either South America or China.
I think that that's just one tool in the tool box. I would argue we need a broader set of tools.
I think a decision has to be made to support an environmentally acceptable way for greater production in the United Stat...
I think it plays into what we're talking about here in terms of the--how we lower the costs.
They're using that as basically an energy weapon, if you will.
We're causing it ourselves.
Because it would appear that when you look to those countries around the world that seem to be leading when it comes to ...
We're at a time when we are looking at budgets. We're pretty quick to pick winners and losers through the budgetary proc...
The real question is is how effective, how efficient are they really in the process that we're all trying to advance?
We want to have fair labor standards. We insist on those. We want to have environmental compliance. We insist on that.
I think we need to keep that in mind.
We should start doing that.
