[hedora]

The point of the comment you're responding to is that the US isn't leading in acceleration (second derivative), but instead in change of rate of acceleration (third derivative) of approving new plants.

So, while it is better than nothing, the situation is still much worse than other classes of terrible news would be.

For example, if our expansion of lithium production was being outpaced by China at a constant 2:1 ratio, that would mean we had solved the second derivative, and (if you count growth rate by percentage of current footprint) also the first derivative problem.