On Friday, the president sat with hundreds of mining executives and Cabinet members to unveil $3 billion for mineral projects — like graphite, magnets and silicon anode material — citing national security and the nation’s reliance on countries like China for those raw materials. While the focus was often the materials needed for weapons or data centers, those same materials are needed for EV batteries.

Not directly, and not on purpose. There’s a very good chance that it’ll be an environmental catastophe, too.