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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,586 posts) Tue Oct 16, 2018, 04:45 PM Oct 2018

The Metal That Started Trump's Trade War

RogueAltGov Retweeted:

Am late to the fascinating recent @BW piece on Trump's aluminum tariffs, but it deserves sharing. So, get this. In announcing the tariffs, Trump focused a lot on one small company, Century, which employs about 2,000 at three US smelters. What went unmentioned, though, is this:

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It's all right here in this great piece:

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The Metal That Started Trump's Trade War (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2018 OP

one third of the cost of smelting AL lapfog_1 Oct 2018 #1

lapfog_1

(29,219 posts)

1. one third of the cost of smelting AL

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Tue Oct 16, 2018, 04:54 PM

Oct 2018

is in the electricity used to make it.

14,500-15,000 kWh/ton

And the reason KY and TN are sitting on a lot of capacity is the TVA. Our "gift" to Appalachia (our taxpayer money was used to created the hydro power plants in TN and KY).

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