I'm from Malaysia, a country in Southeast Asia who is also a major producer of rubber. Let me explain why the rubber is in danger. Rubber trees are no longer just clones but they are also genetically engineered to grow fast and produce latex soon. Usually within 4 years. These new generation trees are smaller and weaker and prone to falling down during storms. I had experienced it several time and dare not drive out from my orchard during rainstorm out of fear for broken branch and trees. Many decades ago, rubber trees takes a long time to grow and they grow huge. Nearly 8 to 10 years of growth before you can start tapping them. They produces a lot of latex per tapping each day. People don't use the small bowl you see today. They nailed a small tank on the trees. The trees are huge, resistant to disease and weather. A single tree produces far more than several trees today. That is what we get from greed. Short term profit but long term loss.

@vaccinefraud5570

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for telling the truth! No one does that these days.

@mrvattoli1858

3 жыл бұрын

The rubber plants creates lots environment problems as well. Deforestation and extinction of wild animals and plants creates lots of heat.

@rayrussell6258

3 жыл бұрын

good info to know, thank you; we need some policy decisions in the US Federal government here --- to negotiate trade deals that force the rubber-supplying countries to use better tree-planting methods.

@jew_world_order

3 жыл бұрын

Thank Monsanto for that

@AntonioFerreira-mx1er

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for clearing the usual US apocalipse mantra...for the everithing is near the end, except for greed, yaths , luxury cars, private jets and ,of course, money

I live in Thailand and the farmers here are not making much money from rubber, most prefer to grow rice, because even if you can't sell it, at least you can eat it.

@aziris7257

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I live in Malaysia and my late grandfather ran a rubber plantation. He said it wasn't profitable at all and thought about converting all the rubber trees into palm oil trees because palm oil is always profitable. I don't understand America. Price and demand of rubber has been falling for years, how much lower do they want the price to fall that they won't even buy the rubber at its current price. There is no shortage, there is still plenty of rubber in SEA though it's getting lesser because nobody's buying them and farmers switched to crops that can actually sell.

@leileiwin8569

3 жыл бұрын

In Myanmar though, they are catching a decent price......at least that's what the 'news' said

@Hans.Dewitt

3 жыл бұрын

@@aziris7257 america doesn't dictate the price of natural rubber. rubber is a commodity same like coal, oil, aluminum, etc and the prices for commodities are almost 100% driven by market supply and demand. for many years the supply of rubber has been higher than demand, resulting in decreasing prices

@EcoHouseThailand

3 жыл бұрын

Farmers in Thailand get paid less than $2 per kg for sheet rubber (after some processing) which results in a income of about $10 per day and no income at all in the first 7 years after planting new trees.

@weimingw3056

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly and if you see who is the major consumer of rubber

my father was rubber tapper; rubber is dirt cheap locally and hard for the locals to make good living. The big companies are making tons of money buying rubber cheaply. Not a fair world.

@AJAYSWAN

2 жыл бұрын

exactly

@zacharygirgenti3790

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the perspective. This is the reason why the continent of Africa has the richest resources but somehow their are large populations in severe conditions of poverty. It's a system built on screwing over these workers and regulating the price of their raw materials.

@zacharygirgenti3790

2 жыл бұрын

@publicenemy421 There are expensive trade tariffs placed on manufactured goods coming from Africa so the producers are put under economic pressure to sell their raw materials to distributors who intend to manufacture these raw materials into more valuable products. This is how the Cotton market functions there and it's not ethical or beneficial to the ones who are doing the hard labor. It would be great if they could produce those goods but imperialist regulation prevents them from gaining their independence.

@tyn6211

2 жыл бұрын

Rubber Tappers need to collectivize!

@markmcdowell71

2 жыл бұрын

@@zacharygirgenti3790while they are working see race stealing

Translation = Yes we are going to raise the price on everything including rubber. You will own nothing and be happy.

@benaquilina6640

2 жыл бұрын

Yes you’ll be replaced in your own country, and it’s a good thing.

@joshaklese4969

2 жыл бұрын

There it is. John Hepbean you have just won a literal rubberband.

@reaj2010

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly you never even own your home or land. You owe the government at every point! Bring back trump that's a good start

@dzizzle8545

2 жыл бұрын

I wish we had a better president.

@VincentGonzalezVeg

2 жыл бұрын

EMP

The media loves words like “apocalypse.” It gets them eyeballs.

@sharischoll9411

2 жыл бұрын

The best way to control people is starvation and FEAR.

@scorpionsdogG64

2 жыл бұрын

So not causing more useless/toxic waste Isn't the goal?

@myguitardidyermom212

2 жыл бұрын

It's almost like they receive revenue proportional to the number of views they receive.

@impitt28

2 жыл бұрын

It got all of your eyeballs

@tndeere

2 жыл бұрын

I work at a major tire plant and we have no shortage of rubber.We produce 10,000 truck and bus tires per day

Don't worry - I'm sure that rubber will bounce back sometime.

@Phxshadowz

3 жыл бұрын

Lol best comment award right here !!

@Joel-ee4yh

3 жыл бұрын

LmFaooooooo

@markusnl

3 жыл бұрын

@0:16

@RollaArtis

3 жыл бұрын

@@markusnl Yes it's subliminal....

@alexzabala2154

3 жыл бұрын

Ooooooooyyy!!! Lol

Well then. Time to finally actually recycle the mountains of used tires we have.

@rageagainstthemachine7434

2 жыл бұрын

WHAT IF THEY RECYCL E CONDOMS ?😱😱😳😳

@DrumToTheBassWoop

2 жыл бұрын

@@chuckscott4661 reusable condoms. 😂

@NoMoYOUsernames

2 жыл бұрын

@@DrumToTheBassWoop Wait...condoms aren't reusable...?

@AS-we9xi

2 жыл бұрын

Can't be done. It's like turning ash back into wood without growing a tree.

@Idmastin1996

2 жыл бұрын

Once rubber is cured it can't really be used to make things out of rubber again. And tires arent just rubber, metal wire and cloth materials in the ply.

"Aren't you gonna put a condom on?" "Girl, haven't you heard we're in a RUBBER APOCALYPSE?"

@christaallen2105

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@gatesford8640

2 жыл бұрын

Lmfao!!!

@DaveRyan1974

2 жыл бұрын

😂😆😂😆😂😆😂

@robinbrown3347

2 жыл бұрын

Don't be a fool, vulcanized your tool !

@newyorkers30

2 жыл бұрын

This guy lol

My God, everything is an apocalypse these days.

@Aus10c

3 жыл бұрын

Everything is an apocalypse for a baby

@normanberg9940

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and everything is either racist, sexist, abelist or a result of global warming(I refuse to use the term climate change simply because they already lost the argument). Now if only we could find some way of blaming this on Trump we would be able to tick all the boxes in the progressive list. What a bunch of navel gazing idiots we are breeding.

@bruceallen6492

3 жыл бұрын

@@normanberg9940 Well said! BRAVOLINGUS!!!

@Zilla705

3 жыл бұрын

And its all intentional

@deadwingdomain

3 жыл бұрын

The media is sensational only. It's a show for ratings. It's the pure lack of Journalistic integrity that America is famous for.

There's about to be a cheeseburger apocalypse at my house right now.

@175IQLOSERS

2 жыл бұрын

Everything is an apocalypse when it comes to the left wing radical media...!! I know for FACT we are not running out of rubber unless we ship it off to china which the left would love us to do.... My buddy brings in 4 double 80,000lb trucks 5 times a day (20 loads a day) to a facility that recycles it and sells it back out to the tire manufactures here in the USA... 1.6 million pounds a day....That is just one facility..!!! Its only an apocalypse if you buy into the left wing radicals daily lies..!!

@libertyprime1202

2 жыл бұрын

@@175IQLOSERS They’re just trying to draw our attention away from our real problems.

@Honestandtruth

2 жыл бұрын

Call me in....😂😋🤣 For a juicy Burger 🍔

@thesorrow4664

2 жыл бұрын

😆

@user-cb1kl2qs2v

2 жыл бұрын

I just had a great borgar

I thought most rubber was synthetic these days

@maggiemae7539

2 жыл бұрын

It is!

@fitrianhidayat

2 жыл бұрын

I came here to say that

@nodrogdivad

2 жыл бұрын

roughly half, I'd say. But it's always mixed in WITH natural rubber.

@mickmamahawkmickmamahawk5829

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. Research.

@mickmamahawkmickmamahawk5829

2 жыл бұрын

Only a small portion is made synthetically because it needs oil. We are running out of oil hence the reason so many pipelines were shutdown. The trees needed to make rubber are vanishing due to overuse, climate change and disease. We will run out of rubber just like we are running out of oil and gas. Hence the reason for biofuels, solar and wind.

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@markcurry5337

2 жыл бұрын

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@Alejandracamacho357

2 жыл бұрын

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@instinctively_awesome8283

2 жыл бұрын

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@Alejandracamacho357

2 жыл бұрын

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@t1e6x12

2 жыл бұрын

Beep bop I am a bot. I completely agree with these real people talking about finances.

“There are synthetic rubbers, but sometimes it can’t be swapped out for the real thing because of natural rubber’s particular properties. Take airplane tires as an example; gotta be 100% natural rubber. And most natural rubber doesn’t come from the U.S.; not even North America.” Great example there…that really helped me understand natural rubber’s properties and why you can’t just substitute synthetic rubber.

@rayrussell6258

3 жыл бұрын

NBC is good at not grasping a full understanding of facts and then spreading fake news; don't learn the wrong thing from that source; planes did not have all-natural tires in WW2, we couldn't get natural rubber during the war; maybe we need to downsize the huge airplanes used today if they are too heavy for synthetic rubber tires - but it is NOT true that all planes REQUIRE natural rubber tires, you CAN substitute synthetic tires for natural rubber ones .... we did it when it was a National priority, it can be done again now.

@temgmcks00

2 жыл бұрын

@@rayrussell6258 My favorite part was how they talked about instead of relying solely on rubber trees research is being done into a fascinating new source of latex…plants!

@gilblax8764

2 жыл бұрын

@@rayrussell6258 nice. They need to hire you. You know how to solve the problem.

@jakestarr4718

2 жыл бұрын

@@temgmcks00 yes its obviously a monsanto advert

@robertvondarth1730

2 жыл бұрын

We just need Bill Nye the science guy to come on and tell us - A lack of natural rubber is causing a shortage of condoms, a shortage of condoms is causing an increase in unwanted pregnancies, and increase in these pregnancies is causing more abortions to occur, thereby appealing to the conservative mind for global warming purposes.

The new scare is _____ SHORTAGES! tune in next week to find out what house hold item will suddenly skyrocket 500% in value!

@carlosandleon

3 жыл бұрын

The inflation is already here, have you seen prices lately?

@keithblain8763

3 жыл бұрын

Fed Chair Powell: Inflation is transitory.

@dannydanielson3707

3 жыл бұрын

Audits here audits there audits audits everywhere exposing the real insurrection against humanity and United States of America which is the Fraud Election Planndemic used to muzzle truth and destroy grandma and grandpa murdered by Planndemic! Media REPENT mercy is better than destroying yourselves for a Lie! Liars media is $hungry media sellouts! Same up people!

@pfzht

3 жыл бұрын

@@24revealer manufacturing artificial bottlenecks in the economy is the Democrats' favorite hobby, while their bread and butter is full on treason.

@Koushi82

3 жыл бұрын

@@carlosandleon don't worry paper gold silver prices suppressed there no inflation.

An important addition: natural rubber can only be stored for 2-5 years, it breaks down over time even with careful storage conditions. So it is hard to stockpile in its natural form.

@SpencerGD

2 жыл бұрын

That actually is useful info, because my first thought was, "wow, they really need futures and a strategic reserve to release when demand is high, instead of just planting loads of new trees." Still, this could benefit from futures contracts & scientists should really look into ways to preserve rubber for longer durations in a cost-effective way, so it can go into a strategic reserve.

@JeffreyBoser

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpencerGD There is an interesting video about the physicist Feynman talking about rubber bands that sheds light on part of the problem. Rubber isn't passive, it is always active, and those active parts erode over time. Check it out: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ioaso9BrdLXgl6w.html

Having more than one source of income is the best way to secure your future.

@clintonj.johnson9879

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a fan of crypto, I'm really benefitting from my investment in crypto.

@marcofox4249

2 жыл бұрын

I am actually looking for a good trader to help me with my investment, any ideas?

@clintonj.johnson9879

2 жыл бұрын

I would recommend Nura Carvalho.

@marcofox4249

2 жыл бұрын

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@clintonj.johnson9879

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcofox4249 Nura Carvalho.

Someone wake me when the four horsemen get here…

@curtisjeffries9630

3 жыл бұрын

Here. Wake up. Mr. West!

@dpeasehead

3 жыл бұрын

@Jim Hofer: The only thing delaying them is that Pestilence can't seem to stay in the saddle for very long..sickly bugger keeps falling off his horse..

@spearce133

3 жыл бұрын

Biden, Harris, Pelosi, and Schumer are already here.

@BEASTMASTERZ_TV

3 жыл бұрын

Which one would you like to be woke for ?

@backseatpolitician

3 жыл бұрын

They said they're not coming until everyone gets the vaccine.

I feel so guilty flicking that rubber band and losing it.

@thomasr1051

3 жыл бұрын

relatable

@phatmantv

2 жыл бұрын

You monster.

@joenewman6494

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@JosephKulik2016

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the folks over at Trojan are worrying about this. ... jkulik919@gmail.com

@jessielivermore1826

2 жыл бұрын

😄

It's sobering to realise just how fragile the systems we rely on are.

@lardlover3730

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@Megatonaxe

2 жыл бұрын

That's Capitalism for you, always one day away from collapse.

the majority of modern rubber isnt natural rubber, this is pandering to fear.

@floridaarmyvet3613

2 жыл бұрын

Like the plandemic

@connorsavage2452

2 жыл бұрын

Most of the media these days is just fear mongering garbage or propaganda. Dont trust it.

I’m taking a pass on worrying about this one. Tank’s full.

@oliversmith9200

2 жыл бұрын

Like, maybe I'll buy some silicone spray and do my rubber parts. Was toying with that idea anyway.

@dukecraig2402

2 жыл бұрын

@@garlinusgervix7867 Yep, I was laughing my ass off when I clicked on this knowing that majority of rubber is made from petroleum. What a bunch of crap, everything with the media is always Doom Doom Doom!!! This story is so full of crap it's pathetic.

@nonameguy7857

2 жыл бұрын

CAuse you’re rich but don’t “worry”

@_Circus_Clapped_

2 жыл бұрын

@@garlinusgervix7867 they are also hiding the real solution to climate change which is easy, just re open the nuclear power plants...

@legalizerapingrussianbroad8299

2 жыл бұрын

I need a bunch of rubber for the poor Girl Scout girls in Russia.. they need help and I am down!

“Babe, I would use protection but I don’t want to contribute to the rubber apocalypse” 😬🤷‍♀️

@r.1599

3 жыл бұрын

"Sweetie, here's a Polyisoprene/Polyurethane/Polyethylene condom"

@FighterFlash

3 жыл бұрын

It’s better for the environment he said…

@jameshefley6841

3 жыл бұрын

Just use silicon rubberized caulking,,it’s permanent and will not leak,,guaranteed

@jeff6899

3 жыл бұрын

"But Honey---by contributing directly to Population Growth😁, You are Furthering the future demands for rubber !😉😁"

@Dfgbuiiyyyybb

3 жыл бұрын

Google child support 💰💰💰. Most expensive bad decision you’ll ever make.

Media: There is a rubber shortage Tire Company: There isn't Media: rUBbEr aPocALypSe

@Chasing_Thoughts

2 жыл бұрын

Many true

@lemmontree1

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously!

@sarahs5340

2 жыл бұрын

Lol omg so true

@fabriciogoulart4564

2 жыл бұрын

You're not wrong, but tell us which CEO will tell the media their company won't produce the goods they're supposed to due shortage? Won't the company value plummet after that?

I wish you would have discussed the middle man in the production countries not paying fair prices which has caused many farmers to switch crops or lower production.

This whole discussion neatly avoids mentioning that most "rubber" products aren't made from natural rubber at all. In fact, car tires contain little or no natural rubber. Most "rubber" is made from oil, polymers from the chemical industry.

@zazaza5535

2 жыл бұрын

Most car tyre formulation is made up of up to 50% natural rubber. The outer part is often made of nylon and other polymers such as styrene-butadiene rubber. The inner part is often made up of natural rubber, as it withstands heat build-up better. Air plane tyres are mainly made up of natural rubber as it stands heat build up better than synthetic rubber. Condoms are made of natural rubber to give the 'natural' feel that synthetic rubber could not.

@beowulf555

2 жыл бұрын

@Al Borland It’s not green still cause these synthetic rubbers break down to micro particles that end up in soil, water and finally in our mouths. Might as well lick your tire.

@haroldhenderson2824

2 жыл бұрын

The same petroleum industry that the Democrats and their "Green" allies want to bankrupt? Isoprene is the chemically pure, synthetic version of "natural" rubber latex.

@ArtStone

2 жыл бұрын

Delta variant! Run for your lives! Severe Thunderstorm! Hurricane! Assault weapons! Terrorists! Oh, hold on. We are the ones creating terror

@douiejordan7990

2 жыл бұрын

Tires made here i know are made of Ameripol, copolymer and copolymer polymer materials. Diffrent mixtures are put together for diffrent a style or use of tires. Called butyl or now called HSR )High Strength Rubber) automotive tires don't use "Natural Rubber". A lo TV of rubber products used on cars now use butadiene or butyl oil based synthetic rubber

I wonder what we will call it when the world actually does comes to an end, because I think “apocalypse” has lost all meaning

@williamgoode9114

2 жыл бұрын

Monday morning

@nonelost1

2 жыл бұрын

The word apocalypse actually means unveiling/uncovering/revelation.

@silverhawk7324

2 жыл бұрын

Judgement Day

I work at a rubber plant. We get get rubber in 1'x2'x4' solid 80lb blocks of dark amber hue from Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Russia. There's no shortage of anything but workers.

Haha yes I remember that awful shortage of garden gnomes ... still not sure how we survived!

@3dChris

2 жыл бұрын

The gnome apocalypse of 2020 was hell.

@two-sense

2 жыл бұрын

I'm still trying to get rid of 11,000 medium sized concrete gnomes which I hoarded back then.

Another created shortage to increase prices. “Pay NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!”

@dewmontain123

2 жыл бұрын

To hell with the money what about the environment

@davids4063

2 жыл бұрын

@@dewmontain123 id love to hear your opinion on "what about the environment?" What exactly do you mean?

@tmcche7881

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely right. Another excuse to distract from the real cause of inflation. Printing too much money. Inflation is not an increase in prices. Inflation is the devaluation of currency. “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” Milton Friedman. ps, there is nothing wrong with the environment.

@fatcat6030

2 жыл бұрын

Stop it with that truth nonsense before your reported! Lol

@fatcat6030

2 жыл бұрын

@@davids4063 Thanks Greta 😂

Many years ago I was at a full-service auto repair facility. I asked the owner what he would do for profit when electric cars took over and there was no more work and maintenance on vehicles. He told me it wouldn't really matter because they make all their money on tires anyways.

@keithdaniels5918

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t see how electric cars can take over. When you have 10’s of thousands of people evacuating an area due to a hurricane and a electric car only has so much range and recharge stations for thousands of cars would require many acres of property and hours of recharge time. That’s just one cluster f#&& among several that comes to mind that make them less than practical in some circumstances.

@MacoyCafe

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithdaniels5918 Battery technology is always improving so eventually you'll be able to go thousands of miles on a charge. Honestly the real threat is another 1859 Carrington event. It's going to happen again and when it does every single power transformer will be destroyed and the earth will become completely dark. 95% of the world will starve to death within a year.

@keithdaniels5918

2 жыл бұрын

@@MacoyCafe that is 100% correct. Only with our weakened magnetic field it won’t take near that sized event to put us down. I have several vehicles that are EMP proof. Living in a rural area I still think if I drove them anywhere they would be swarmed like World War Z. It could happen any time. With solar cycle 25 really starting to get active. So many are clueless……sad.

@MacoyCafe

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithdaniels5918 It's great to be prepared as much as possible for what's coming. It amazes me how Jesus warned us of all these signs and what they would lead to and how so many Christians aren't listening to Jesus warning. I pray wisdom for all of us on how to help the foolish people who aren't preparing. 👍

@frankradcliff660

2 жыл бұрын

That's bs

I’d worry more about lithium battery recycling. You’re set to force millions to switch to electric vehicles without a way to recycle them. WORSE lithium takes TONS of energy to recycle and yields barely anything. Fossil fuel energy. It’s insanity.

@SirenaSpades

2 жыл бұрын

Nuclear power is the way to go. Don't worry about lithium. Worry about the focus on solar when nuclear has far more power.

@levistrauss5378

2 жыл бұрын

Nuclear energy is cleaner and more effective than the alternatives. Where do all these people think they're going to get the electricity for their car?

@theredacted3805

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah also, what energy are you using to produce these batteries? Solar? Wind? LMAO NO. Coal, and fossil fuels, so whats the point going electric.

@uioplkhj

2 жыл бұрын

@@theredacted3805 Better for the environment. Makes cities more liveable due to decreased noise pollution.

@JimmeShelter

2 жыл бұрын

@@uioplkhj Electric vehicles are now mandated to make noise.

In a perfect world you would think someone would have come up with a way to recycle old tires into new new tires

@trp2413

2 жыл бұрын

Someone should figure out how to turn ash into wood again too. The chemistry just isn’t there.

@RichieWellock

2 жыл бұрын

for 5 decades now rubber can be turned back to usefull state, vulcanised rubber as in tyres is harder but for 2 decades thats been possible. But not as profitable as making demand high to charge more. Vulcanised rubber can be transformed into long chain carbons to create fuel out of it as so we can with none recyclable plastics. Unfortunately that mainly hits the economical sense of collecting all these materials and being then cost effective. same problem with starving people in respect to there being abundance in places of food waste , but in transporting and collecting the price then ascends to above what is locally affordable for the logistics costings. we really have a screwed up world

manufactures: we have enough rubber also manufactures: Increase tyre prices due to shortage of natural rubber

@wisho-ro4305

3 жыл бұрын

Ain't that a b/tch huh

@sunnohh

3 жыл бұрын

Best part is 99.99999% of rubber is synthetic, derived from oil.

@Hans.Dewitt

3 жыл бұрын

@@sunnohh don't talk if you haven't got a clue....

@jamiehayes4820

3 жыл бұрын

Some rubber is synthetic . 85% of a tire is natural rubbers and oil. The synthetic rubber is made at oil refinery s.if oil prices rise so does rubber prices.

@vento765

3 жыл бұрын

rubber supply actually record high in last few years. the price was very low so farmed forced to transform their farms to palm oil. I think there's some market manipulation going on. but this is the problem. after a few years rubbers will be rare since there's less farmers.

Crude oil is the principal raw material in synthetic rubber. Approximately 70% of all rubber used today is synthetic.

@Frznngr

3 жыл бұрын

Yes but only naturaly rubber can take the preasure of an airplane landing.. No rubber No air travel....

@jamiehayes4820

3 жыл бұрын

Not in a tire. Only the inner liner is synthetic. Less than 5%

@stephens1393

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamiehayes4820 For regular car tires it is apparently about 2:1 synthetic to natural actually. For truck tires, it's the other way-- 1:2. I thought it was more synthetic as well, but I guess there's still a lot of natural rubber used.

@patriot1182

3 жыл бұрын

100% Correct!

@0dyss3us51

3 жыл бұрын

Well they have different material property

Had no idea rubber grew on trees

"Sorry baby, I'd love to strap-up, but there's a Rubber shortage. So we all gotta cut back and pitch in where we can. That means we gotta go Raw-Dog for a while."

@mal2ksc

2 жыл бұрын

...and now you're having puppies. 🤣

@mattbanks3517

2 жыл бұрын

Just use polyethylene.

@WIZ850

2 жыл бұрын

Sheep skin

@dustinbone4942

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard of a guy using freakin plastic wrap before lol like what the hell is that gonna do for anything!!

@mal2ksc

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattbanks3517 A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?

Wait, wait, go back. There is a gnome shortage? Now this is what we need to be talking about.

@jamesanderson5268

3 жыл бұрын

That caught my eye also.

@TheNefastor

3 жыл бұрын

Can't wrap my head around it. Did tons of people go "oooh, pandemic ! Better stock up on *garden gnomes* ! ????

@hayleyrogers5778

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@herbertbrown119

3 жыл бұрын

There was but President Biden has let several thousand across the southern border and they are now setting up breeding farms in Nevada. The intention is to install them inside Dominion voting machines to change ballots

@13bigerdave

3 жыл бұрын

my garden will NEVER be the same

Gnome shortage ? That explains why i haven't seen a Travelocity ads in a while .

@tenshi.kurama

3 жыл бұрын

He got kidnapped by scalpers

@jaredkennedy6576

3 жыл бұрын

Well, with many countries still having restrictions, that gnome can't roam.

@andyginterblues2961

3 жыл бұрын

...gnomes were already pretty damn short.

@mimigiggles4199

3 жыл бұрын

I think he got mixed up in a drug cartel and got eaten by a hippo. Roaming where he shouldn't have been roaming, allegedly.

@johnassal5838

3 жыл бұрын

@@tenshi.kurama Change that to 'Somali pirates' and you've got the next big Tom Hanks vehicle.

It never ceases to amaze me just how much we’re stripping away from our only planet, like these resources are infinite. We bury our heads in the sand and deny how much damage we’re doing.

@Vladpryde

2 жыл бұрын

We're grossly overpopulated. That's the problem. Nobody seems to be talking about it though. It baffles me that Biden wants thousands more from Mexico and South America into this country when we can't even house our own citizens, and as we stray further into debt and the rising costs of living. Cut the population of this planet back by a few billion and then we'll be fine.

@eone2345

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vladpryde what right do you have to suggest cutting down others who in your words, 'over population', on this planet? If you think that idea is truly ideal and really concern and true to your words, don't just talk, prove it by practical action - start from yourself.

I noticed nobody says anything about recycling the rubber tires they have now..

@salvatoreshiggerino6810

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

@deesmith8576

2 жыл бұрын

well they have it but this show wants to sell you off to dandelion. Also planting a tree never came up in mind for the dandelion instead she wants 40 billion for droplets of rubber I WONDER WHY?

@skapunkoialternativeliving6522

2 жыл бұрын

@@deesmith8576 it makes me Wanda to also my friend

Do economist think rubber has an elastic demand? ...sorry couldn't resist the pun :-)

@raypitts4880

3 жыл бұрын

stretching the supply chain to the limit.

@johnassal5838

3 жыл бұрын

It'll snap back so there's no need for all this tension.

I won't spend a dime at Starbucks.

@ACommenterOnYouTube

3 жыл бұрын

I dont give then a dime either, more like $5

@philnightjar1971

3 жыл бұрын

Starbucks overrated, I prefer a local cafe run by my friend Cuz I always get discounts lma

@ACommenterOnYouTube

3 жыл бұрын

@@philnightjar1971 i agree with you but we all get to spend our $$ where we want to

@direwolf6234

2 жыл бұрын

or amazon walmart staples home depot etc...

Moral of the story: Men around the world must unite to avert the apocalypse. So remember to turn those love gloves inside out between uses!

@deesmith8576

2 жыл бұрын

snicker bar offers a snack and after eaten and used will have a treat for the girl at the end

@whatleft123

2 жыл бұрын

I cut mine in half, so I only use half the amount each time. Conserve people, conserve. Plus the bottom half feels better.

It's the same with BANANAS a fungus is staring to destroy plants.

@gamingtonight1526

2 жыл бұрын

But we can get used to a different banana, maybe. But rubber? No. But then we are coming to the end of so many resources, for 30 years we have been using resources like we have1.7 Earths!

@lawrenceiverson1924

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that just means they have to change cultivars again.that's OK there's lots tastier varietals than Cavendish!

"Shipping increase": using more tires. Everyone working from home not driving: Not calculated.

@everythingasmr1601

2 жыл бұрын

SRT owners : hold my tires

@t3dwards13

2 жыл бұрын

You're completely forgetting the deliveries. Don't be delusional. From food, to Amazon as well as other subjects. Ships use more rubber than you think. Your 2-day air delivery requires that ships float, and land back in the water. In my area, many have used the extra time to race, do burnouts and donuts on public roadways. The list goes on.

@oliversmith9200

2 жыл бұрын

Manufactured scarcity pays fat at the top.

@nathanielpatterson6963

2 жыл бұрын

@@t3dwards13 I don't think I'm delusional. There is drastically LESS traffic in my city, but you want me to believe we are using more tires. I for one have reduced our households vehicles from 3 to 1, and we carpool now.

@davec.3198

2 жыл бұрын

People staying home will actually create a surplus. Passenger car tires are getting much, much less wear.

Thank god we aren't going to lose our rubber ducks.

@Derocium

2 жыл бұрын

I was relieved when I heard that part

I believe this is the first time watching this video and now I am commenting a year later after it was posted. I bought 8 tires new for my two vehicles and didn't see a noticeable difference in the price of tires from years ago. Even with inflation, tires seem reasonably priced. But if prices shoot up, then I am glad I bought my tires now. Thanks for sharing CNBC. Love the content.

If we are running short of rubber. WHY are there mountains of illegally dumped tires in every major state??

@Delosian

2 жыл бұрын

Because we don't really recycle. We fool ourselves into thinking we do, but in reality we either burn or bury it, including most of the stuff we put into the recycling bins.

Latex from dandelions? I'll be a billionaire. That will show my neighbors.

@DBrentWalton

3 жыл бұрын

Milkweed plants - bigger and more latex.

@greensage395

3 жыл бұрын

@@DBrentWalton Poinsettia can grow into Tree-size plants! :)

@djangosmith592

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 love it !!!

@michaelconnolly3990

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!!

@SandcastleDreams

3 жыл бұрын

Save the leaves. They block ACE2 Receptors from accepting Spike Proteins. 1 to 2 tsp. of dried leaves per day made into a cup of tea.

So the biggest demand for rubber is tires but we all locked down for over a year and didnt drive as much making our tires last another year. The shortage of semi conductor leads to shortage of cars which means not as much demand for tires. So why exactly is there going to be an rubber apocalypse or shortage?

@volvo09

3 жыл бұрын

Eat zee bugs, libve in zee pod.

@jonwojcik4494

3 жыл бұрын

The trees used to create rubber were cut down to create food producing trees and plants. Now that the industry and need for rubber is growing there is a waiting period(7years) to grow and replace those trees

@djangosmith592

3 жыл бұрын

I worked at a tire warehouse during COVID 2020 we couldn’t keep tires and also we had supply chain issues to boot

@MrMan_47

2 жыл бұрын

Thinking like that is unacceptable comrade!

I like how they say some items needs natural rubber, but only list one, and it's airplane tires. Where's the apocalypses.

@RichRich1955

2 жыл бұрын

Many developing countries people are wanting to drive. There's 8 billion humans. How much rubber would you think comes from a 4 year old tree?

@tweedyburd007

2 жыл бұрын

@@RichRich1955 Do you drive airplanes to work?

It’s amazing how everything is now in a shortage. 🤔

@lardlover3730

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it’s because the earth can only sustain 4.9 billion humans without encountering shortages

@morteza1024

2 жыл бұрын

Shows how fragile the economy is.

@whatabouttheearth

2 жыл бұрын

They say there is a looming food shortage in the US also......but go to the supermarket and look at the shelves for yourself. Just like they said about 50% of the US is obese....but go out to town and look for yourself with your own eyes. Is it true?

@Elcomendante64

2 жыл бұрын

Yah, it’s because the consumption patterns have changed. Before pandemic the USA was buying more services than goods. That has flipped with the pandemic. Supply chains are adjusting. A shortage is necessary for the adjustment to happen.

Let’s just hope tire makers don’t make the same mistake as car manufacturers when they reduced their orders for microchips in cars and cause a shortage. Cause it will take 7 years to increase supply. Take care of of your suppliers just as much as you take care of your end users.

@sodalitia

3 жыл бұрын

Rubber is not a microchip. It ages in storage and looses properties.

@vibeking888

3 жыл бұрын

@@HermannTheGreat O totally like a Ceo would be browsing a KZread comment section. 🤪

@greatdaneacdc

3 жыл бұрын

Michelin tires at the wholesale level up 20% ! Prices will go up now everything!

@enriquemercedes9519

3 жыл бұрын

@@sodalitia and so does my car that has a microchip in it yet you don’t see me selling or thrashing my car after long periods of not driving it. Explain why Toyota ignored the just in time supply chain tactic and stored microchips to keep manufacturing cars?

@theallseeingeye9388

3 жыл бұрын

Judging by how much they care about their customers, its going to be a big shortage folks

The woman selling the "shock value" to a supply shortage. Is the same lady "inventing" her own rubber process. 🤔

@gjenkins1660

2 жыл бұрын

Politics at it's finest 😉

@Kanzaz

2 жыл бұрын

She'll have an ipo next week

@lloydwoodward9053

2 жыл бұрын

Rubber: comes from a plant Lady: I’ve found a way to make rubber from plants!

@XDamainI

2 жыл бұрын

Also asks for 1 billion dollars like it's nothing.

@garlinusgervix7867

2 жыл бұрын

CNBC is hiding the fact that Crude Oil is used to make 70% of the worlds rubber. Because Shutting a pipeline down is a good idea. www.google.com/search?q=is+rubber+made+from+oil&oq=is+rubber+made+from+oil&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l3j0i390l2.3701j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I'm doing my part to conserve rubber, no condoms!

@Whiteboykun

2 жыл бұрын

*being celibate

That's odd, prices of rubber here in the Philippines is still low. Some big shots got richer yet again.

@Titus357

2 жыл бұрын

Medium grade Goodyear tires here in USA are $100 each with installation costs.

@MrRight-fu1gf

2 жыл бұрын

@@Titus357 I paid 50 dollars. Maybe they lowered the price because they took my old tire.

In the early 1970's I worked as an engineer for a factory making latex surgeons' gloves so I am familiar with rubber. As the video explains, the price of natural rubber is cyclical. I'm sure the price got flattened by the pandemic, but a shortage is needed to raise prices and spur production. In the past we have tried alternative plants for sources of latex, but nothing economically has ever been found. It is difficult to synthesize natural rubber because of the molecular arrangement of atoms in the molecule (cy- versus trans isomerism); however, we can make inferior but workable substitutes, such such as styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) and a number of other elastomers.

I'm rubber you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks back to you.

@johnarmenta2199

2 жыл бұрын

I am coating myself in rubber cement. That way I will be BOTH rubber AND glue, and yet NEITHER rubber nor glue. Yeah - I just blew your mind! LOL!!

@oliversmith9200

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnarmenta2199 Just do it in a well ventilated area so you don't blow your own mind!

America: you keep cutting down trees! I’m going to sanction you! Also America: I need your rubber!

"In one ear and out the rubber."

Ahhh I remember the toilet roll shortage. That was stupid...

@markplott4820

3 жыл бұрын

I dont even use TP, I have a TOTO Automatic Toilet.

@TheHDCam2

3 жыл бұрын

I bought all I could because I knew if I didn’t, others would and I’d be knowingly disadvantaging my household. I didn’t think the world was coming to an end, but I understand others fear that if this is a highly transmissible and lethal virus, than that might require nearly or absolutely all factories to be shutdown for an undefined period. If that cuts off tp supply and you don’t have enough, that’s not going to be a fun situation. Also the leader of the most powerful country was in utter denial, wildly inconsistent, and alienating public health leaders with deep expertise. So yeah it was kind of disorienting time.

@Helaw0lf

3 жыл бұрын

I thought that was so selfish of people. I thankfully do my part by using one to three squares per use.

@cable30

3 жыл бұрын

It was so bad even places that was closed and cant open was either selling their big rolls or donating cause had so much tp in stock cause not open to use any. even traffic was stealing it from places as left left restroom any. but traffic was stealing rolls even before pandemic if needed that bad lol.

@daneclark3161

3 жыл бұрын

Stupid? No. It got me to buy my ButtBlaster 3000.

Always interesting to see over time how these folks use words. Apocalypse, bomb and war seem to be use more and more often. I wonder why

@eavyeavy2864

3 жыл бұрын

Just like "wholesome', ngl, "literaly" doesnt mean anything. People just overeact to present an image they are not. Same thing applies to "american fear" words.

@golden1324

2 жыл бұрын

To try and distract you from looking inwards

@chem.4919

2 жыл бұрын

Would you have watched the video if it was titled "Looming rubber shortage"?

Growing crops of Dandelions in vertical, high-tech, indoor farms. Sounds normal for these abnormal times.

@deesmith8576

2 жыл бұрын

or just grow the trees and get buckets of them less work more product. Billions for some dumb hydro farm where you have to waste so much vs throw a tree on the ground and there you go cuts back on carbon also.

Oh no! Now I gotta run out and buy out the store in underwear and 50 years worth of tires for two cars while I still got a few bucks.

Most 'rubber' isn't even rubber. It's made from petroleum, OIL.

@edwardneuman6061

3 жыл бұрын

Synthetic rubber might be made from oil not natural rubber.

@robertjones1730

3 жыл бұрын

you don't know what you you don't know

@Fearlessphil100

3 жыл бұрын

@@edwardneuman6061 Correct, real rubber comes from rubber tree sap.

@stevehoch9528

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what the point of this was. During WW2 our supply of natural rubber was completely cut off by the Japanese. The result was the advancement of synthetic rubber which we used to make almost everything that we needed to continue fighting, including airplane tires. We don't really need to buy natural rubber unless it is priced right.

@stevehoch9528

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZX-mt2dg Ok, I'll bite. What about it? Natural rubber is still available for those applications, whatever they may be. The whole video reminded me of climate change hysteria. What was your take on it?

2-6 dollars a day? When the rubber market is worth 68 billion a year?

@Beachdudeca

3 жыл бұрын

Yea it’s like pork it does not go to the farmers

@rockgod2131

3 жыл бұрын

Not much different than any other industry. Like smartphones.

@letsgobrandon987

3 жыл бұрын

It’s all relative to the cost of living to where you live.

@nikolaykrotov8673

3 жыл бұрын

Natural rubber is used because it is cheap. Farmers should be grateful for what they get. If price of nat rubber goes up it would be quickly replaced by synthetic alternatives.

@Jimraynor45

3 жыл бұрын

Any person can freeze water or plant a tree, but you need to be a master scluptor to sculp ice into a figure or to carve wood into furniture. Knowing how and what to do with a material is usually much more valuable than any material itself. That in fact is how wealth is created.

Like always: pay the farmers a fair price for their product, let them farm within the limits nature sets, and you fix the problem.

@Whiteboykun

2 жыл бұрын

Wow such genius problem solved you titan of industry I think my balls just dropped. what are you doing in youtube comments when there are so many failing industries out there? For the good of humanity, Get out there!

@andersbjrnsen7203

2 жыл бұрын

@@Whiteboykun I am out there! Offfering the solution on KZread for every one to see! Now all you have to do my disciple is to go out in the world and implement my teachings!

Whenever I watch how things are made, I just wonder, who decides to tap a tree and says, this could be a thing

@VitorFM

2 жыл бұрын

Indians from Amazon Forest

Wow, I actually thought virtually all "rubber" products -- tires, shoe soles, condoms, elastic bands, gloves, etc -- were pretty much all synthetic. Kinda shocked we use so much actual real, natural rubber.

@Hans.Dewitt

3 жыл бұрын

both have their own unique properties and corresponding uses

@maxfastest

3 жыл бұрын

No way there are massive rubber tree plantations that are able to supply the amount of demand we have ! Oil is used to make all of those products instead !

Hopefully, Rubber will “bounce back” without having the farmers “stretch “ even further !

@danielabella8871

3 жыл бұрын

if only the manufacturer play it fair. then our farmer won't experience the disappointment in rubber plant industry

@faithandhope6

3 жыл бұрын

the real profit is in the commodity traders, if rubber will bounce back, well, it depends on the commodity traders in the commodity stock market. the reality is that raw rubber is very underpriced.

@davidtindell950

2 жыл бұрын

@@faithandhope6 Unfortunately,, “commodities “ are manipulated by greedy traders. Perhaps growers could form a large co-op ? It is another corrupt economic system !

Meanwhile in Indonesia, natural rubber farmers (smallholders) are valued at less than 1 dollar or 2 dollar for 1 kilogram purchased by collector/distributors at low prices and sell them at high prices. So that farmers lose and cut down their trees to be replaced by oil palm.

@bccsivxx-xxivvii

2 жыл бұрын

Same way with every product. The working man is taken advantage of. Even in Perú and other South American countries, the coca farmers may get $20 for a kilo of cocaine that is the percent sold for $25k to $100k+ wholesale to retail.

@bradaltemeyer4472

2 жыл бұрын

we need fair trade latex, like the fair trade coffee to put the money into the workers hands, and the farmers hands, ditching the middle man is a classic business strategy for many supply chains.

A 100 years ago we got most of our rubber from trees. Now we create synthetic rubber off oil byproducts. No rubber shortage on the horizon. We good

Market will rebalance, rudder product will be more expensive for a while until things stabilize. No apocalypse.

@joshuaheller33

3 жыл бұрын

No shortage either! China is needs it more than we do. They make it and are keeping it for themselves. Notice it shows how they make "natural rubber." Hitler and National Socialist Scientists invented synthetic rubber years ago. China has all the supplies to make it. Why do you think China is fighting for Taiwan??? Come on meow. Google it. Look it up. Tell me if I am wrong.

@deadwingdomain

3 жыл бұрын

We can do away with rubber tires in a decade, if we wanted to. There are several models for alternatives to rubber. Rubber which doesn't work when the road gets too hot...

“Rubber from plants!” Sooooo are we saying that the trees that produce natural rubber aren’t plants?

@noconnection9875

3 жыл бұрын

Not in that sense of "plant". You hear tomato plant, not tomato tree. You hear apple tree and banana tree, not apple plant and banana plant.

@maxfastest

3 жыл бұрын

You couldn't plant enough rubber trees to produce anywhere near enough rubber to supply the needs of the masses ! Tires are made from OIL !

@peterpan4038

3 жыл бұрын

Tires include a long list of parts, and usually natural lathex is part of it. But yes, modern tires use way less natural lathex then those in the earlier days.

@ppumpkin3282

3 жыл бұрын

If dandelions produce laxtex, I could supply North America.

@3wolfsdown702

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterpan4038 thats why they're crap

Professor, come to my property to get free dandelions! I've always got the weed all over my lawn of 1 acre! 🤣

So, the toilet paper people are going to be buying tires.

@hermask815

2 жыл бұрын

I see a connection and it’s called skid marks. Now you have to live with that image in your mind.

Time to start shredding and recycling old tires on a grand scale.

@bigchuckyinkentucky6267

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, it doesn't work that way. You can't remake a tire from a tire. You can retread it once, maybe twice but eventually the rubber breaks down and loses its flexibility. Something called vulcanization. Don't ask me cause I don't understand it either.

@rayrussell6258

3 жыл бұрын

I have some old tires, think I'll go clean out my garage, and maybe get some cash from the tire recyclers

@rossjudd6049

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigchuckyinkentucky6267 How about condoms? maybe have a recycling program for them? Those aren't vulcanized! (at least MINE aren't) :)

@bigchuckyinkentucky6267

2 жыл бұрын

@@rossjudd6049 I don't even want to think about it. 🤮

@ScooterFXRS

2 жыл бұрын

Once vulcanized it changes it structure and can not be reused for that purpose.

I see. The "rubber apocalypse" lady is promoting her own start up.

@thatoneguy378

2 жыл бұрын

Good comment!!!

@gregtomamichel973

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. The only one shouting "apocalypse" has a vested interest in her own startup company. Meanwhile, all the tyre companies say "actually, we're ok." A very poor article.

@George.Andrews.

2 жыл бұрын

This is crap

@tz8785

2 жыл бұрын

This has already been done in the 1930s to 50s, however, productivity per acre couldn't compete with rubber trees.

@sonnymoore5555

2 жыл бұрын

ITS PLANT BASED THOUGH!!! Never mind that rubber trees also are plants?

Go back to using Kevlar for car tyres. The only reason they stopped using it is due to Kevlar lasting substantially longer and tyre manufacturers were therefore losing profits.

During world war II when the Germans were a severe threat with their submarine fleet in the Atlantic and the Pacific the allies resorted to a specific breed of dandelion that produced a latex of sufficient quality to make the tires and rubber materials needed for war. It is still being researched by enthusiasts today.

Millions of square feet of abandoned factories sitting in the rust belt - why can't they be repurposed?

@DeathByFishing

2 жыл бұрын

Other then lack of skilled workers, government taxation and over regulation is why most factories are abandoned.

@tutored2today438

2 жыл бұрын

Cheaper in china

@DavidLLambertmobile

2 жыл бұрын

🏭 ? Sure! Where are you going to find sober, stable labor work forces able to do 40hr shifts? 168hr per week? Cleveland had Firestone, Goodyear, Uni Royal etc. Howd that work out? 🤔

@DeathByFishing

2 жыл бұрын

@Dennis McConnell Perot was talking about NAFTA. Bill Clinton's legacy. And what a failure it is. Those jobs would all still be here if our government gave industry a fair deal so they would keep businesses in America.

@tutored2today438

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidLLambertmobile how did that work?

I'm confident that rubber will bounce back.

Now Tire was like about 80 bucks now it’s about $200 fire stone

I wonder if the early 2020s will go down in the history books as the time where we finally learn the limitations of capitalism and start putting sustainability and resilience over profit margins.

instead depending on production, we should find an effective and efficient ways to recycle and reuse those rubber waste

@oliversmith9200

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps expedience of necessity will eventually bring that realization, but, it seems many will only get their dragging holes into their rubber soles.

@deesmith8576

2 жыл бұрын

you do know they have tire recycling plants these people just didnt bother doing the research

@garethbaus5471

2 жыл бұрын

Natural rubber degrades with age, and can't be used to replace virgin rubber after it is vulcanized. The best we can do is to repurpose the old material in a less demanding way to recoup some of the costs.

Everything is bad news. I went numb once I recently saw a video saying we are running out of sand. 🤷🏿‍♂️

@direwolf6234

2 жыл бұрын

no sand no concrete glass or screens...

Others have made the point there is no natural rubber in most tires. What we frequently call rubber, is actually an elastrometric petroleum polymer

The fight for shipping containers!! Have you ever been to a shipping port? They have thousands of extra containers.😅😃😏😏

So not quite an "apocalypse". More like a temporary blip caused by a volatile market, slow supply, and supply chain issues. Still though, an informative video.

@dan_6915

3 жыл бұрын

Useless news

@glutenfreegam3r177

3 жыл бұрын

Unless those tree diseases are eradicated...the rubber tree apocalypse could be a very real thing

@daniluchison

3 жыл бұрын

She said rubber apocalypse' not just apocalypse. It means within the next few years, pricing will go up high. If Covid showed the world something is that average humans have become too dependent on global corporations for a variety of things, from food, pharmaceuticals, energy (most solar panels are made in china) and now even tires!

@livelirah9109

3 жыл бұрын

Sanction US they use force labour in southeast Asia, evidence; just $2/day. This is missuse of power

@agisler87

3 жыл бұрын

@@livelirah9109 Is it "forced labor" only because you don't like the pay? That's not forced labor. And you cant put western standards on other countries.

I always assumed that car tires were mostly synthetic rubber. Guess you just can't beat the real thing sometimes

@markplott4820

3 жыл бұрын

Race cars use Tires made from Orange Oil.

@ArthursHD

3 жыл бұрын

There is a free documentary on KZread about tires. And you are correct there is not much latex in cheap tires.

@AllenHanPR

3 жыл бұрын

They got tired of using the fake stuff.

@manfredlisting2143

3 жыл бұрын

It'a a supply/demand thing. When the price of natural rubber rises, synthetic rubber takes over. Apocalypse deferred!

I had a rubber apocalypse twice...there 7 and 11 years old now.

There is entire junkyards full of old tires. Are they not recyclable?

It's upsetting to see someone in a suit discuss supply chain issues when you know the people farming the actual crop are not receiving proper pay for the product they are providing.

@Terra_Lopez

3 жыл бұрын

I know, right? And their pay tends to be a relatively small percentage of the total cost of the finished product, I think, so it shouldn't affect the end user cost too much.

@adrianguggisberg3656

3 жыл бұрын

That's how first world wealth works.

@djtan3313

3 жыл бұрын

@@adrianguggisberg3656 Yup.

@jase87

3 жыл бұрын

Why is it upsetting? Farmers tend to be lower skilled labour work that almost anyone can learn to do. The guy in suit has the skill set the drive the industry, not everyone has that kind of skill

@Trtevoorryu

3 жыл бұрын

We should be making rubber in the US but I guess that requires paying a living wage.

We need to start retreading our tires!

@manfredlisting2143

3 жыл бұрын

What with?

@dpeasehead

3 жыл бұрын

@Jas93Productions: Retreading radials? If you can invent such a process, you'll be really really rich. Interesting fact: tires used on large commercial jets ARE often retreads, but that process can only be done a limited number of times on each tire.

@Jas93Productions

3 жыл бұрын

This technology already exists with airplanes, and semi tires. Tire companies make too much money selling completely new tires for cars and they claim it’s because of safety. There’s a very interesting documentary on KZread called ‘rubber tires - a dirty business’

@dpeasehead

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jas93Productions It's dirty from the cradle (the rubber plantations which have displaced vast areas of forest) to the "grave" from which used up and long buried tires work their way back to the surface in dumps all over the world.

But producing more rubber and tyres, does not solve the global problem of what to do with the product when we have finished with its primary purpose such as tyres.

Good thing that writing checks is something we don't do as much now days, too many rubber checks keeps the supply down for other items

The breadfruit tree produces sap that can make rubber that can be harvested every day. When we were kid we chew dried breadfruit sap as chewing gum adding sugar and toothpaste for flavor

@thomasr1051

3 жыл бұрын

north american's call breadfruits bannanas right?

@davedrewett2196

2 жыл бұрын

Jackfruit too and it can be grown in the subtropics.

@adriancodogan949

2 жыл бұрын

@@davedrewett2196 we call Jackfruit breadnut a good source of sap

“Supply chain security”, the fight is always over raw materials and unfinished goods.

@deadwingdomain

3 жыл бұрын

It's a scarcity market. It's never been an honest supply and demand system.

@destinyglitches9519

2 жыл бұрын

@@deadwingdomain and these videos cause panic buying. Market manipulation on a global scale or honest reporting?

Same thing with about any agricultural commodity. Most have cycles, some that make money in agriculture either stay flat in their operations and don't jump in and out of the market based on prices or some even run countercyclical and increase production when the market is low and exit the market when it's high.

@donalddrane2795

2 жыл бұрын

Finally an intelligent comment, exactly correct!!!

Well if u notice all over American suburbs there are so many useless trees, but nobody thought to ever plant rubber trees that are actually useful?

@mal2ksc

2 жыл бұрын

That kind of thinking has resulted in invasive species getting out of control on many occasions.