President Joe Biden highlighted his efforts to counter China’s dominance of the electric battery market as he touted domestic efforts to mine and process lithium and rare metals.
FILE Clouds and nearby mountains are reflected in a polluted canal, once used as a boating dock, along the Salton Sea in Desert Shores, Calif., Wednesday, July 14, 2021. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, pointed to plans to extract lithium from geothermal wastewater around the sea as an example of the Unites States' efforts to compete with China and other nations when it comes to domestic lithium production.
“We can’t build a future that’s made in America if we ourselves are dependent on China for the materials that power the products of today and tomorrow," Biden said. “And this is not anti-China, or anti-anything else. It's pro-America."Biden spoke virtually from Washington with a group of California business and government leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Elsewhere, Biden touted lithium production efforts in California. Newsom has called the state the Saudi Arabia of lithium, a reference to that country's abundance of oil. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Energy is among several companies working on extracting lithium from geothermal brine found around the
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