Many of us come from parts of the country where ammonium nitrate is a very common commodity.
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This is only going to get more critical as time goes on.
This is an issue that is something that deserves the attention of the U.S. Congress.
If that same thing happened between the United States and China... and they cut us off--what is that going to do to your business?
I am truly amazed that you have gotten to the point that you have gotten, and you are to be congratulated.
I understand that that is probably a politically correct position to take.
There really is no market. I mean, there is a monopoly today.
Rare earth production is one of those opportunities.
In my view, the most important issue for Congress to address is the bureaucratic delays faced by those who wish to develop our domestic production capabilities.
We will not see significant progress on clean energy technologies until we are serious about the production of the minerals used to produce them.
I think greater attention needs to be given to it.
Our standard of living requires us to generate and consume a significant amount of energy, and that energy must be produced somewhere.
It seems that Congress doesn't spend nearly enough time in its oversight role because of the reach and the breadth of everything that Congress undertakes these days.
This is a real sacrifice Americans are making, and they are sacrificing their children's and grandchildren's future.
And perhaps when you are there, in order to diminish the fear of the motives and what have you, if they have a clearer understanding of the sacrifice this is.
We don't have any money anymore. It is gone. We are spending our kids' and our grandkids' money.
This Government is going to borrow 41 cents out of every dollar it spends this year.