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Commerce wants companies to commit to building new US aluminum capacity in exchange for tariff relief on Canadian & Mexican imports.
Sounds reasonable. It isn’t.
Aluminum isn’t manufactured. It’s electrolyzed. Electricity is 30–40% of total production cost. One large smelter consumes as much power as a mid-sized city every single day.
That means before you invest a dollar in a new smelter, you need one thing above everything else: a 20-to-30-year power purchase agreement at competitive rates.
Those don’t exist in most of the US right now. The regions that historically powered American aluminum Pacific Northwest hydro, TVA, Ohio Valley baseload have seen that cheap power disappear, get deregulated away, or get competed for by data centers and EV manufacturing.
Canada 🇨🇦 , meanwhile, has something no policy can touch: geography. Quebec and BC sit on some of the world’s most abundant hydroelectric resources.
Cheap. Permanent. A structural advantage that existed before Section 232 and will exist long after it.
You cannot tariff your way to cheap electricity.
So when the government asks companies to commit to new US primary aluminum capacity in exchange for tariff relief it is asking for a commitment the underlying energy economics make structurally impossible.
That’s not a financing problem. That’s not a business problem.
That’s physics meeting geography. And no trade policy has ever won that fight.
Next.
@JesusFerna7026@WillDAllen Re #4. Before consolidation, a smaller house like Norton or Worth could publish an intro pysch book, say, geared to better prepared students, and make money. So you’d have three tiers of intro pysch books— challenging, mainstream, and easy. Not any more.
@autumnpard GRRM used literary alchemy to craft ASOIAF and you see it in a few names where he uses the Four Elements. Aerys = aeris = “air” in Latin. Danaerys is directly referred to as “fire and air” in the first book. Snow = water.
Happy New Year! I wish all the best, peace, love to you and your families in 2026.
Maria Prymachenko and a symbol of the year – a horse.
Pyrohiv National Museum
The way he hit his head because he was laughing so hard 😭
#ProBowlVote + @tkelce#WPMOYChallenge + Travis Kelce
Rt to vote for Taylor’s wild boy and his wild joy ❤️🔥
Violence in #Syria has been on a steady decline in recent months, with the last 2 weeks being the lowest ever recorded.
Amid all the noise & a ton of disinformation, it's these encouraging trends that should be acknowledged much more.
Full data -- https://t.co/1kpVOhOzbx
The first human face carved on a T-shaped pillar has recently been discovered at Karahan Tepe, a pre-pottery Neolithic archaeological site in Turkey.
It is estimated to be over 12,000 years old.
Today in 1066, William the Duke of Normandy crushes England's King Harold II a few miles inland from the coastal village of Hastings (at the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex). Although fewer than 20,000 take part in the clash, its outcome echoes down through the ages.
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