> Consider that natural gas used to be though of as rare and limited, so much so that its use for power production was outlawed in the US! Where are you gettin

> Consider that natural gas used to be though of as rare and limited, so much so that its use for power production was outlawed in the US! Where are you getting this information? Natural gas has been widely extracted for much of the last century [1], and made up substantial portion of electricity generation as early as the 1960s and 1970s [2]. Where did you read that its use for power production was banned? It became preferable in late 20th and early 21st century for power generation because of stricter emissions standards. Burning methane is cleaner than burning coal, and technology developed to the point that building gas infrastructure was not cost prohibitive. Natural gas is not an example of a previously rare natural resource suddenly becoming common. And even if it were, there's no guarantee that lithium is going to follow the same fate. Simply assuming that there are always more mineral reserves than is estimated is an easy way to end up with a shortage. 1. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9050us2a.htm https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9050us2a.htm 2. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34172 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34172