Amongst everything else, the Trump Administration is living 20-30 years in the past. In other words, serving entrenched interests seeking to artificially and l

Amongst everything else, the Trump Administration is living 20-30 years in the past. In other words, serving entrenched interests seeking to artificially and locally sustain the value of their capital. (It's not about "the workers"; it's about the owners.) Aluminum. What's the number one cost input? Energy. Either we jack up the U.S. carbon pollution (and all the other pollution that goes with it, e.g. heavy metals and soot particulate and...). Or we move towards "next generation" technology, having that product and expertise to sell in addition to lessening cost inputs to domestic electrolysis and smelting. A few years ago, Iceland -- yes, Iceland -- was moving towards being a major producer of aluminum. Why? Cheap, in its case geothermal, energy. I agree that domestic, or certainly continental, reliable sources are important. However, it seems that the way to those, at this point, is energy policy and also a progressive environmental policy (not destroying your environment and the rest of your economy and health that are dependent on it). And, the inevitable automation -- jobs are going away from this production activity, regardless. Instead, we've got the corporate mafia. 30 years ago -- maybe more like 40 -- the U.S. might have been able to protect its domestic metals industry while incentivising it to modernize. What remains has modernized and found ways to keep up. We need to help it move and expand into the future, not devolve to some era of cheap, dirty energy and corrupt politics.