Well the US is a net exporter on oil and LNG, pretty much even on agriculture and every few months a new "world's largest deposit" of some critical material art

Well the US is a net exporter on oil and LNG, pretty much even on agriculture and every few months a new "world's largest deposit" of some critical material article comes up.[1,2] So I think we really are debating whether the chicken or the egg came first, and the answer is that dinosaurs were laying eggs before chickens started clucking. [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/worlds-largest-deposit-lithium-may-231936498.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/worlds-largest-deposit-lithiu... [2]https://www.theearthandi.org/post/estimated-2-34-billion-metric-tons-of-rare-earth-minerals-discovered-in-us https://www.theearthandi.org/post/estimated-2-34-billion-met...