whatyareckon

By Ronald Stein ~

Shortages of the following may be leading to the new norm of shortages and inflation:

• Neon -the gas crucial to manufacturing electronic chips.

• Urea – the ingredient to make the EPA required Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) additive for all diesel vehicles.

• Refineries – projections of 20 percent closures over the next 5 years of these aging infrastructures will result in less manufacturing to meet growing demands.

• Oil – The U.S. is following California to be totally dependent on foreign countries to meet the demands within its borders.

NEON

Neon is an important component in the lasers that etch semiconductors. Like krypton and xenon, it is a by-product of steel manufacturing. Steel producers separate air to control levels of oxygen and nitrogen delivered to the blast furnace. This involves the fractional distillation of liquid air.

Neon is important to the manufacture of semiconductor chips but is not present in the…