o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

>In this mad scramble to ram EVs down every throat there is absolutely no mention
>as to the actual scarcity of Lithium.

Possibly because there is no scarcity.
Lithium is actually quite plentiful. The only scarcity is down to economics - as demand increases and/or existing extraction/processing streams "dry up" then prices rise and it becomes economic to start extracting a different resource.
A goid read on this is The No Breakfast Fallacy written by Tim Worstall https://www.adamsmith.org/research/the-no-breakfast-fallacy


Just my 2d worth

Simon