You, are correct NanoEE. I should have written mined in the US with friendly allies. But zero US tax payer money going to mines in Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, or any other country. Instead of running a Petro pipeline from Alaska run a fresh water pipeline Home /Alaska Science Forum /Alaska’s Water Crop Is A Natural Resourc https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/alaskas-water-crop-natural-resource An entrepreneur once tried to remedy that. During his second term as Alaska governor in the 1990s, Wally Hickel proposed exporting some of Alaska’s freshwater to California. He envisioned an undersea pipeline that would carry water from either the Stikine River in Southeast Alaska or the Copper River near Cordova to California. That pipeline would have been more than 1,400 miles long (compared to the 800 miles of the trans-Alaska pipeline). Most thought the idea was nutty, but members of the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment gathered in Los Angeles in 1991 to see if the pipeline was feasible. Gov. Hickel attended that meeting. Hard to protest a pipeline full of fresh water. Or go this route. Unlimited Fresh Water: Can MIT's Breakthrough Save Us? [yt]2XzmNpacpvk[/yt] .