"Leftists love smartphones and hybrid cars, but they don’t want to develop the mineral resources that make those products possible."

The headline comes from an interesting read at Powerline called "Civil War In The Democratic Party."

I remember getting into long arguments with a guy named garage mahal on the Althouse blog about iron mining in northern Wisconsin and then also about silica mining elsewhere in Wisconsin. Garage perfectly embodied the preservationist mentality -- don't develop and eschew conservation -- i.e., smart development.