It is a feedstock, since you need energy,but you need nitrogen and potassium as well.
Potash already is mined and available in the US, and all that they need to do is ramp up production, not really open new mines.
Oh, really, and by how much and how fast will you be able to do that?
Just take a look here:
That helps me a hell of a lot in Europe!Just take a look here:
Plenty of Potash, but Some Regions Lack Low Cost Sources for Crop Production | U.S. Geological Survey
While the earth contains enough potash to meet the increased global demand for crop production and U.S. supplies are likely secure, some regions lack potash deposits needed for optimal food crop yields. According to a recent USGS global assessment of potash resources, the costs of importing...www.usgs.gov
As of 2015, most US potash comes from Canada, with US domestic sources in Utah, New Mexico, and Michigan (though the Michigan mines had ceased production at the time of publication, but still had reserves left).
So we have at least three states with proven reserves, along with most of our potash coming from Canada, which won't be affected by the Russia embargo/sanctions, and Israel has potash as well, which also won't be hit by sanctions.
So realistically, the cost of potash might go up a bit, due to how the global trading systems work, but the US's supplies of potash are not dependent on Russia and are not something that Russia can cut off.
You were acting like the US was fucked by being cut off from Russian potash, and I showed you why that simply isn't the case.
The mines already exist, and potash is not a mining process that uses a lot of harsh chemicals like gold or silver lining, the environmental groups barely care about potash mines because they do produce necessary material with minimum environmental damage, so regs won't be a huge issue.
No, go watch Stone's "Ukraine on Fire" and John Mearsheimer's "Why Is Ukraine the West's fault", Nuland, McCain and the rest of the neocuck/neolib/atlanticist estalishement pushed for this since before 2014.
Yeah, at 40% higher cost, probably.
I know about the bullshit the US is involved in/has been involved in with regards to Ukraine; it's why I've likened Zelenski to Baghdad Bob lately, and have said the US should not have gotten involved in this mess.No, go watch Stone's "Ukraine on Fire" and John Mearsheimer's "Why Is Ukraine the West's fault", Nuland, McCain and the rest of the neocuck/neolib/atlanticist estalishement pushed for this since before 2014.
Also,if our food production falls and if we can't get fertilizers and energy from Russia, guess where we will be buying them from.
Capitalism 101, you get energy and fertilizer and food price inflation, too.
Ain't globalism grand.
Russia counter-sanctioned the EU after we sanctioned them, including with unprecedented shit like attacking their Central bank.
The DEI/ESG garbage that led to us burning money on green nonsense is also a fad instituted by the USA.
And it is your media that pushes much of the green narrative globally.
I'd say this is split 50/50 between the EU and the USA's establishments,it would have been less severe if the top Eurocrats had not been such morons.
Get woke, go broke needs to hit them like a ton of bricks, sadly they are not elected and can't be voted out of office, they should have resigned already, and not be able to get elected or assigned as civil representative in the shittiest village in Romania.
Don't care what they do on their own time and dime.
Perhaps gravel as a stop gap? Not great, but should last a few years.*sigh* I was hoping to put down some concrete for a garage this summer. I already punted on it from last year, because the cost was so high (~$7000), and I was hoping that after all the COVID madness died down that the price would drop. Now I'm beginning to regret just not ripping the band-aid off then.
*sigh* I was hoping to put down some concrete for a garage this summer. I already punted on it from last year, because the cost was so high (~$7000), and I was hoping that after all the COVID madness died down that the price would drop. Now I'm beginning to regret just not ripping the band-aid off then.
