re: Kaiser Aluminum plant in Chalmette closure

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We might be in a recession but I still see people buying a lot of expensive shite

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Perhaps, but I would suggest that there aren’t as many of those people out there currently. Most people in the working class are counting their pennies.

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I thought noranda/atalco in gramercy was the last aluminum plant left in the US?

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For the edification of those who might be interested, there are two fundamentally-different types of plants we're talking about here. The ALCOA / Kaiser plant in Baton Rouge (by the old bridge), the Kaiser etc. plant in Gramercy, and the ORMet etc. plant in Burnside took / take bauxite, the ore mined in Jamaica and elsewhere, and process it into (call it whichever) alumina / aluminum oxide / Al2O3. Then a separate process, often at another location, processes or "reduces" the alumina to aluminum (pure Al, to which smaller amounts of other things are typically added). That second process is what Kaiser did in Chalmette and other (out-of-state) locatios. ORMet sent its alumina from Burnside to Ohio for reduction into aluminum.

Jamaica most likely