Musk Implied Tesla Had No Vested Interest in Bolivia's Lithium, "We Get Our Lithium From Australia" -LIE- Tesla Bought Batteries from ACISA, Whom Morales Reneged on Contracts Just Days Before Coup
Well-put, my friend. It was very clear to me from the beginning of the entire Bolivia coup that it was a foreign-orchestrated attack against the Morales government and its attempts at nationalization - an evil world in the neoliberal-neocon world order. The sheer magnitude of how much lithium wealth is contained within Bolivia's national borders is enough to entice any nefarious foreign state or corporate actor into interfering with domestic policies to destabilize the government and install their preferred puppet political actors.
I had read that Bolivia has enough lithium reserves, untapped, to be able to set up an OPEC for Lithium, like an LPEC with Chile and a few other major producers. Bolivia could essentially set the global price for lithium, and that would give them tremendous power over the "growing" EV industry as well as the lithium-ion battery subsector that the EV industry depends on.
This is without even mentioning that Tesla's solar power division is heavily-dependent on lithium (and silver) as well. Funny how Musk didn't say anything when AMLO was elected president of Mexico and vowed to transform the country into a more self-sufficient energy-producer. Perhaps it's because the silver supply chain was captured by several global players long ago and isn't seen as in-demand as lithium (judging by prices, too).
Musk is, and always has been, a war profiteer. He is no one's friend, he's a stereotypical billionaire psychopath, intent on getting exactly whatever he wants, regardless of the costs of human life and suffering.
Well-put, my friend. It was very clear to me from the beginning of the entire Bolivia coup that it was a foreign-orchestrated attack against the Morales government and its attempts at nationalization - an evil world in the neoliberal-neocon world order. The sheer magnitude of how much lithium wealth is contained within Bolivia's national borders is enough to entice any nefarious foreign state or corporate actor into interfering with domestic policies to destabilize the government and install their preferred puppet political actors.
I had read that Bolivia has enough lithium reserves, untapped, to be able to set up an OPEC for Lithium, like an LPEC with Chile and a few other major producers. Bolivia could essentially set the global price for lithium, and that would give them tremendous power over the "growing" EV industry as well as the lithium-ion battery subsector that the EV industry depends on.
This is without even mentioning that Tesla's solar power division is heavily-dependent on lithium (and silver) as well. Funny how Musk didn't say anything when AMLO was elected president of Mexico and vowed to transform the country into a more self-sufficient energy-producer. Perhaps it's because the silver supply chain was captured by several global players long ago and isn't seen as in-demand as lithium (judging by prices, too).
Musk is, and always has been, a war profiteer. He is no one's friend, he's a stereotypical billionaire psychopath, intent on getting exactly whatever he wants, regardless of the costs of human life and suffering.