What A Disgrace. Joe Biden.

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Biden just Screwed Every Electric Vehicle Owner or Future Electric Owner and people who really want to live off grid on Solar with Batteries and people who Boondock R/V camping and live on Batteries more than a Generator.
Why?

Taliban Secures World's Largest Lithium Deposits After US Withdrawal From Afghanistan

Lithium Ion Phosphate and Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries are used in all models of electric Cars/Trucks/Cell Phones/Laptops and just about all rechargeable devices.
Your USB rechargeable Flashlight (Torch) uses Lithium Ion Batteries your cell phone uses Lithium batteries. 

Now just guess who is the World Leader in Producing Lithium Ion and Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries???? CHINA!
Yes, if you buy a Battle Born premade Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Pack for your home/rv/boat or anything you want to power with solar or wind as your charger and have batteries that'll last 10 to 15 years, you'll purchase Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries or Lithium Ion Batteries. Lead Acid batteries last 3 to 4 years.

You can buy from a dealer that well build the batteries for you or you can do as my husband did, DYI.
But all these batteries come from CHINA.
America does not have he Lithium deposits nor factories to build these.

Afghanistan has Huge Deposits as does China.
China also has numerous factories that build these batteries.

Yes my friends, you don't know it yet, but everything rechargeable just doubled in price.

One thing sure is that the Taliban now control the world's largest lithium deposits and is becoming friendly with China. 
Real Friendly.
China nor did Russia Close their Embassy's, there is 1 Trillion Dollars in Lithium Ore there.

A Bloomberg New Energy Finance Limited report in 2020 highlighted China's global dominance in the lithium-ion battery supply chain market, due to its grip on raw material mining and refining. In 2019, the US imported 80 percent of its rare earth minerals from China, while the EU states imported 98 percent of these materials from China.

China incidentally also shares a small border with Afghanistan called the Wakhan Corridor – 210km long. While the length of the border may appear insignificant, its location is crucial. Afghanistan is believed to have large deposits of gold, iron, copper, zinc, lithium and other rare-earth metals, valued at over $1 trillion. "Afghanistan may hold 60 million metric tons of copper, 2,2 billion tons of iron ore, 1,4 million tons of rare earth elements (REEs) such as lanthanum, cerium, neodymium, and veins of aluminium, gold, silver, zinc, mercury…" according to a 2020 report in The Diplomat.
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The real reason we were there.
It wasn't about the Opium as mush as Raw Materials, is the past 5 years the price of Lithium Ion & Iron Phosphate Batteries had decreased drastically, now you can expect to pay more and more as China take Control of over 1 Trillion Dollars in Lithium.  

Yes you can Thank Biden and his Generals for the high cost of your Tesla.