Elon Musk, the American billionaire businessman complained this Friday about lithium prices through his Twitter account and Jujuy governor Gerardo Morales, responded in a striking way.

It all started when the account of the same social network “World of Statistics” published the evolution of the chemical element from 2012 to 2022, a period in which it starts at 4,450 dollars per ton and ends at 78,032.

“The price of lithium has already reached insane levels! Tesla may need to go into mining and refining directly on scale, unless costs improve,” began the tycoon’s response that, among other object, has placed communication satellites in space and conducted out -of -atmosphere trips in conjunction with NASA.

“There is no shortage of the element itself, because lithium is found almost everywhere on Earth, but the rate of extraction / refinement is slow,” he added.

Half an hour after Musk appeared on the platform where he is now a shareholder, the governor of Jujuy appeared on the scene.

“Hello Elon, I am Gerardo Morales, Governor of Jujuy (Argentina). The two most important lithium production projects in the country are underway here with a total capacity of 80k tonnes per year and 20k hectares of lithium reserves available for exploration. We are Jujuy Verde ”, the first post of the provincial president to the businessman.

And he added: “We have a development policy conducted based on the green economy and carbon-neutrality, with our sights set on the transition to electromobility. We also have the largest photovoltaic solar park in South America (300 Mw) “.

“With revenue from this state -sponsored project, we are building 258 new schools (750 the total number of schools built in our province’s history), all equipped with solar panels.”

Moments later, a new message was sent to Musk from Morales ’account, with more details of his administration’s initiatives. “We started a 96Mw distributed solar energy generation plan and 10Mw solar thermal plant project. We have the most advanced biotechnology complex applied to medical cannabis production in Latin America and we started a green hydrogen project.”

“Many people are talking and doing nothing, we are innovating and implementing real actions in this sense. I invite you to Jujuy to get to know our projects, our nature and our beautiful Andean culture. Who knows, maybe the next GIGAFACTORY will be JUJEÑA “, he added.

Finally, after the invitation to the northern province, he closed his letter in English and he even explained why he had written in Spanish then.

“I apologize @elonmusk for not writing this tweet in English, that’s because I’m sure the twitter translator works perfectly.”