>>2846373
>>2846373
Lets try another one… How about MINING!!! There is a saying in the mining industry that "If it is a thing that is useful to humans and is not grown on a plant or extracted from an animal source then IT IS MINED. Simple as that.
Look around yourself RIGHT NOW. See all those refined metals? How about the cement in the walls of your moms basement you are sitting in? How about the glass that your beer bottles scattered around your desk is made out of? How about every single piece of plastic, every single non-plant based fiber in your grungy unswashed underwear. How about the expensive and difficult to find Rare earth metals like Neodymium and Lithium and ?gallinum? for transistors? I forget that one… Anyway, it matters not.
The point is that EVERYMOTHERFUCKINGTHINGYOUSEE with few exceptions come from mining or drilling in some form. Don't think plant products are seperate form the mining industry. Go grow 1000 acres of corn without using machines made from refined steel which is made from anthracite coal. Go grow a million bales of cotton without fertilizers that come directly from the oil industry. See if you can do it BY HAND. Good luck. Yes, even the hemp you hippies love to go on about will require massive mined resources and refined stuff to make even the FIRST red and green Rasta-hat. Why am I making this point? Because mining was murdered in the US. Don't believe me then go look into the environmental regulations required to simple start an aggregate quarry… http://www.oregongeology.org/mlrr/surfacemining.htm Look through all these links and think of the costs involved… Now those costs will be tacked onto your expenses and passed onto your final product costs. I hope you have MILLIONS of dollars available instead of just a rock crusher a dump truck a loader and some land. Everyone wonders why everything is made in China… Everyone wonders why all US base industries are dying… Everyone wonders… It is really fucking simple. wait for it…
It comes down to land use regulations. There are (socialist/communist) government entities that hold real ownership of ALL LAND in these United States. These bodies exist to STOP the use of that land in any way possible, usually through the tools of environmentalism.
But we don't want unregulated wildcat mining to be dumping toxic chemicals in the rivers and streams killing muh bull trout and muh silvery minnow!!! GO look up the gold king mine in Colorado and talk to me all about how the EPA saves the environment… Really… Let me know what you think. So on the topic of the EPA…