quick look at my usual place shows them paying $0.15/lb for clean lead, 3cents less for batteries; and up to $2.20lb for clean copper. At the peak in 2007, lea

quick look at my usual place shows them paying $0.15/lb for clean lead, 3cents less for batteries; and up to $2.20lb for clean copper. At the peak in 2007, lead was worth at least 1/3rd more. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lead https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lead ... so i dunno about "soaring demand for metals", cuz the market doesn't seem to show that. copper is higher than the 2011 peak, but not that much more. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/copper https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/copper