it’ll be the beginning of a campaign to buy US batteries rather than ‘cheap explosive’ Chinese ones

Cheap lithium ion batteries are awful, though, so if the US ones are better, I'm for it. Like I know Westinghouse doesn't manufacture their own l-ion batteries, they use white label from some manufacturer they trust, probably LG.

But I have thrown away probably 100 18650 and 26650 batteries that just sucked or were fire hazards.

The cheap junk *should be* banned as a fire hazard.