Interesting that the one extinguishing the flame (is that tiki torch irony?) is the asshole that has all of the ‘Apprentice’ unreleased video of his friend the Orange Cheeto.
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I have a friend who was an Electrical Engineer at an Aluminum smelting plant in Kentucky. I remember being surprised, “What do they need an electrical engineer for?” He said they go through like a million dollars worth of electricity a week.
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Hawley: Don’t let the shiny metal plant close!
Biden: siezes means of production
Hawley: NOT LIKE THAT!
ETA:
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Yep. Aluminium is basically a solid form of electricity. Not in any physics sense, but in a financial sense.
Fun fact - From the time aluminium was discovered as a metal (1825-ish) until the tricks for electrolytically separating it cheaply were discovered (1886), aluminium was a precious metal, initially more expensive than gold. When the lightning rod atop the Washington Monument was first installed it was aluminium (might still be?), and it wasn’t cheap when it was installed.
ETA: I spell it aluminium, but feel free to mentally autocorrect. I do. 
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Napoleon used to dine with aluminum tableware. Fancy.
One thing that I vaguely remember is that many aluminum producers have placed themselves next to a hydro-power option, because integrating that directly is a huge cost/efficiency savings.
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It is pretty neat how it went from something rare, saved for special uses, and now we use it for soda cans and foil to cover our yogurt.
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Yeah, this is likely at the root of the problem here. Iceland has become a hotbed (unintended double entendre, but I’ll take it) of aluminum smelting due to the extremely low price of electricity derived from geothermal sources.
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I can’t stand Hawley, but I think keeping the plant open should be studied, though I doubt any good solution would make Hawley happy. Sudden large plant closures are tremendously damaging to communities and it is a major source of a vital commodity. Study if it can be made viable. If yes, nationalize, retool, then spin it back out to the workers. But given that Missouri uses a lot more coal in its electric generation mix than most places it might not be salvageable, In that case give it a glide path to the softer landing that we didn’t get in Cleveland.
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I think the story was that for big parties, they’d run out of aluminum, and less important guests had to settle for gold.
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In a just world he would already have been laughed out of the public eye for that title alone. To quote Bugs, “what a maroon.”
Can I see a timeline on that one, please? I’m sure it would be interesting.
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Ancient Rome, Greece, and Israel were all super into personal liberty too. Like, it is definitely a concept I recognize from all of their societies, which are famous for advocating the rights and freedoms of individuals. 
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You’ll have to deionise (deionize?) it before you use it. Just like you have to dephlate any Sulphur you import when your industry requires Sulfur.
Edited to fix obvious typo.
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