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So, with an inventory of just thirty-five the haul trucks alone are using 17.5 million gallons of fuel a year for just one lithium site

What with the rising cost and spotty availability of diesel fuel, this will spike the price of batteries big time. It may make them far less available, too.

It's almost as if the PTB are trying to drastically limit our transportation options.

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“What with the rising cost and spotty availability of diesel fuel, this will spike the price of batteries big time.”

I watch the price of Lithium AA and AAA batteries at Sam’s. At the beginning of the year (and for several years prior), they were $1.11 each (in large packages, of course), then 2 in April they went up to $1.33, and just now at $1.54. I suspect it’s the price of the Lithium as that increase far exceeds inflation.

This ‘transition’ will not be pretty.