The definitions did not save my aluminum functions, but it may be the real investment

I used to spend nights glowing the molten metal. Inside the aluminum smelter, the air was thick with heat coated around you like a heavy coat that you could not take off. Lightning was cracking inside the pots while torn the oxygen electricity from alumina, leaving behind the glowing silver course of raw aluminum – the metal that built everything from the planes to the transport lines.

The raw land turned us into a strong and durable thing. Today I invite our leaders to bring this work, and these good functions, by returning to America by re -investing in the production of first aluminum, because I know what it seems when these jobs disappear.

I saw him directly when the mineral doors are closed from 7 to forever in 2024 in Maraston, Mo. I was not just me – hundreds of us lost our livelihoods, and a whole community lost its marina.

The grocery store, the barber store, the fuel station in the corner – not only lost customers, but lost the neighbors. Elementary or primary melting, not just a job. It is the basis for families and towns throughout America. When the fuse was closed, this foundation cracks.

If President Trump really wants to stand with working people, he must prove this with slogans, but with investing in the primary aluminum production here in America. Try to solve the problem with section 232 in 2018, to restore the industry from the edge of the abyss. This helped reopen the former aluminum Nuranda fuse. But without addressing the real problem – the overwhelming cost of electricity to operate a fuse – the definitions will not be cut alone.

For this reason I closed the size of 7 minerals, despite that protection. The definitions did not save my job, and they will not save the future of this industry. What will the real investment in production will invest at reasonable and renewable prices, which gives American aluminum an opportunity to fight to compete.

America needs aluminum. Everything about the future – whether the wind turbines are tall in the Middle West, the solar panels lined through the desert plains, and electric cars rolling the assembly lines – dependent on aluminum. This is a metal of progress. And if we do not commit it here, we will continue to buy it from the outside, and often from dirty charcoal countries while workers breathe toxic fumes.

Definitions alone cannot solve this problem; America needs a real investment in a cleaner and safer son -in -law in order to be able to compete and lead.

We have another way to go ahead: the basic aluminum building in America, does not work with coal but by renewable energy. Imagine the screaming runs on electrical energy, wind or solar charging over the network. Cleaning production makes us more competitive than aluminum on the world stage. China produces more than half of the show in the world – but what if we participate in the American power with the American innovation to be the same, if not more?

I provided the wages that supported my family, the health care that kept us safe and the retirement plans that mean the future. Aluminum functions are middle -class construction functions. If President Trump says he will put American workers first, then the reopening and strengthening of American aluminum mosque should be at the top of his agenda.

For this reason, the Century Aluminium plan is to build a very exciting new fuse. It is not only an opportunity to create thousands of jobs on American soil, but an opportunity to do this correctly. This is what the future resistance industry seems: safe functions and a cleaner sky.

When the size of 7 fascinations was closed, I felt that the life I built for my family was demolished. But aluminum workers like me did not end – we are still skilled and difficult and proud to build the basis for aircraft, cars and energy lines that make America move. The basic aluminum is more than metal – it relates to dignity at work, strong societies, operating the future of clean energy with American race and skill. If Trump is serious about standing with the workers, he will stand with us. We know how to create the metal in the future – give us strength, and we will launch it.

Dalton Ezel is a previous metal size agent 7.