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The latest threat to phosphate supplies is electric vehicles

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  • AlbertaFarmer5
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2010
    • 12480

    The latest threat to phosphate supplies is electric vehicles

    https://www.producer.com/news/china-...ild-batteries/
    I don't expect farmers will be able to outbid EV battery manufacturers for a dwindling supply of phosphate.
    Last edited by AlbertaFarmer5; Nov 14, 2021, 17:07.
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    #2
    I was really bored today and read that socialist rag for a bit too
    Funny they printed that tale

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    • AlbertaFarmer5
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2010
      • 12480

      #3
      When the radical greens reignite the food versus fuel debate about using fertilizer to make car batteries, I'm sure Chuck will be leading the charge. Looking out for Farmers.

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      • BreadWinner
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2008
        • 1493

        #4
        Im sure its in the Lefty Green handbook that fertilizer to make batteries is totally fine. Lol

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        • furrowtickler
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2004
          • 21853

          #5
          Originally posted by BreadWinner View Post
          Im sure its in the Lefty Green handbook that fertilizer to make batteries is totally fine. Lol
          Much like huge open pit mines developed and worked with huge fuel burning equipment, it’s all good
          But to produce food , well that’s no good

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          • AlbertaFarmer5
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2010
            • 12480

            #6
            Originally posted by furrowtickler View Post
            Much like huge open pit mines developed and worked with huge fuel burning equipment, it’s all good
            But to produce food , well that’s no good
            I get a kick out of the picture accompanying the article. Of a fossil fuel powered truck hauling electric cars.
            Last edited by AlbertaFarmer5; Nov 14, 2021, 18:50.

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            • biglentil
              Senior Member
              • Jun 2015
              • 3259

              #7
              The globalists know switching over the ice vehicles is a pipe dream. Mark Carney stated that in the not so distant future only the ultra rich will have cars. So much so that a child will call out to his mother in awe, "hey look Mom a car!"

              The war on fossil fuels is a war on us.

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              • macdon02
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2007
                • 1858

                #8
                Originally posted by AlbertaFarmer5 View Post
                https://www.producer.com/news/china-...ild-batteries/
                I don't expect farmers will be able to outbid EV battery manufacturers for a dwindling supply of phosphate.
                Yeah we can

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                • macdon02
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2007
                  • 1858

                  #9
                  Originally posted by macdon02 View Post
                  Yeah we can
                  The subsidies are lopsided to big oil refining veg oil. EV's are not getting the same nod. In the end, it's same old same old, plus the infrastructure isn't in place for EV, roll coal boys, diesel is going nowhere but up. Higher canola and soy prices due to mandates on renewable diesel. It sounds pretty, but at the end of the day, govt is not going to bite the hand that feeds them.

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                  • shtferbrains
                    Senior Member
                    • Jun 2017
                    • 5174

                    #10
                    Originally posted by macdon02 View Post
                    Yeah we can
                    There is no way China can't produce enough phosphate to export product. They produce 5x the US production.

                    US production is falling not because of reduced reserves but because of consolidated ownership in the hands of the usual suspects.

                    There are many smaller more expensive to mine phosphate deposits that might get mined as prices make it pheasable.

                    Appears to me that China is no longer trying to lowball the whole world on a large number of products. They have dominated production on many products after destroying manufacturing segments in most original G7 countries and are set up to take some windfall profits.

                    My humble opinion.
                    DYOD

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