The Supply of Crucial Metals for Batteries

Just as oil prices are spiking and everyone's going, oh, we need to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, it seems like all of the commodities that you actually need for that transition, for de carbonization, those are spiking too. If you look at all these crucial metals, whether nickel or cobalt, or the price of lithium, all these crucial ingredients, not only are the charts mostly up in to the right, there aren't that many of them. And so i'm wondering how much of th boll case was true? Is there actually a finite amount? Or is it the case that it just takes long to get the mines up and going? It