What The Rubber ‘Apocalypse’ Means For The U.S. Economy
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- The global economy now faces a rubber shortage because of multiple supply chain disruptions. "We could be on the cusp of a rubber apocalypse," Ohio State University professor Katrina Cornish told CNBC. Rubber producers are working against all odds: climate change, disease and the fight for shipping containers. The global rubber market was valued at nearly $40 billion in 2020, but one analysis predicts the natural rubber market could be worth nearly $68.5 billion by 2026.
Rubber is a critical raw material needed for car tires, personal protective equipment such as masks and gloves, and many more everyday products. Anytime you’re going anywhere, you’re using rubber. Now, supply chain disruptions have thrown the rubber industry into a tailspin.
“We could be on the cusp of a rubber apocalypse,” Ohio State University professor Katrina Cornish told CNBC.
Rubber producers are facing climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, a destructive fungus and the fight for shipping containers.
The global economy remains dependent on Asia for 90% of the natural rubber supply. For example, the U.S. imported $140 million worth of natural rubber in March 2021 alone, according to Census data.
The global natural rubber market was valued at nearly $40 billion in 2020, and demand for rubber is expected to increase. One analysis predicts the natural rubber market could be worth nearly $68.5 billion by 2026. One reason for the increased demand? Car tires.
“We are using tires more and more,” Stefano Savi, director of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber, told CNBC. “The amount of mileage that we’re going to do as a global population is definitely bound to increase, and that’s why the demand for rubber is really continuing to increase.”
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What The Rubber ‘Apocalypse’ Means For The U.S. Economy
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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.
Thanks for telling the truth! No one does that these days.
The rubber plants creates lots environment problems as well. Deforestation and extinction of wild animals and plants creates lots of heat.
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.
Thank Monsanto for that
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
The media loves words like “apocalypse.”
It gets them eyeballs.
The best way to control people is starvation and FEAR.
So not causing more useless/toxic waste Isn't the goal?
It's almost like they receive revenue proportional to the number of views they receive.
It got all of your eyeballs
I work at a major tire plant and we have no shortage of rubber.We produce 10,000 truck and bus tires per day
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.
exactly
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.
@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.
Rubber Tappers need to collectivize!
@@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.
Yes you’ll be replaced in your own country, and it’s a good thing.
There it is. John Hepbean you have just won a literal rubberband.
Exactly you never even own your home or land. You owe the government at every point! Bring back trump that's a good start
I wish we had a better president.
EMP
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.
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.
In Myanmar though, they are catching a decent price......at least that's what the 'news' said
@@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
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.
Exactly and if you see who is the major consumer of rubber
Don't worry - I'm sure that rubber will bounce back sometime.
Lol best comment award right here !!
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@@markusnl Yes it's subliminal....
Ooooooooyyy!!! Lol
Well then. Time to finally actually recycle the mountains of used tires we have.
WHAT IF THEY RECYCL E CONDOMS ?😱😱😳😳
@@chuckscott4661 reusable condoms. 😂
@@DrumToTheBassWoop Wait...condoms aren't reusable...?
Can't be done. It's like turning ash back into wood without growing a tree.
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?"
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Lmfao!!!
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Don't be a fool, vulcanized your tool !
This guy lol
My God, everything is an apocalypse these days.
Everything is an apocalypse for a baby
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.
@@normanberg9940 Well said! BRAVOLINGUS!!!
And its all intentional
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.
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..!!
@@175IQLOSERS They’re just trying to draw our attention away from our real problems.
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I just had a great borgar
I thought most rubber was synthetic these days
It is!
I came here to say that
roughly half, I'd say. But it's always mixed in WITH natural rubber.
Nope. Research.
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.
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.
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.
@@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: czcams.com/video/XRxAn2DRzgI/video.html
“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.
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.
@@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!
@@rayrussell6258 nice. They need to hire you. You know how to solve the problem.
@@temgmcks00 yes its obviously a monsanto advert
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.
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The inflation is already here, have you seen prices lately?
Fed Chair Powell: Inflation is transitory.
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Media: There is a rubber shortage
Tire Company: There isn't
Media: rUBbEr aPocALypSe
Many true
Seriously!
Lol omg so true
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 feel so guilty flicking that rubber band and losing it.
relatable
You monster.
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I wonder if the folks over at Trojan are worrying about this.
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Someone wake me when the four horsemen get here…
Here. Wake up. Mr. West!
@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..
Biden, Harris, Pelosi, and Schumer are already here.
Which one would you like to be woke for ?
They said they're not coming until everyone gets the vaccine.
It's sobering to realise just how fragile the systems we rely on are.
Indeed
That's Capitalism for you, always one day away from collapse.
the majority of modern rubber isnt natural rubber, this is pandering to fear.
Like the plandemic
Most of the media these days is just fear mongering garbage or propaganda. Dont trust it.
“Babe, I would use protection but I don’t want to contribute to the rubber apocalypse” 😬🤷♀️
"Sweetie, here's a Polyisoprene/Polyurethane/Polyethylene condom"
It’s better for the environment he said…
Just use silicon rubberized caulking,,it’s permanent and will not leak,,guaranteed
"But Honey---by contributing directly to Population Growth😁, You are Furthering the future demands for rubber !😉😁"
Google child support 💰💰💰.
Most expensive bad decision you’ll ever make.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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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
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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.
I wonder what we will call it when the world actually does comes to an end, because I think “apocalypse” has lost all meaning
Monday morning
The word apocalypse actually means unveiling/uncovering/revelation.
Judgement Day
I’m taking a pass on worrying about this one. Tank’s full.
Like, maybe I'll buy some silicone spray and do my rubber parts. Was toying with that idea anyway.
@@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.
CAuse you’re rich but don’t “worry”
@@garlinusgervix7867
they are also hiding the real solution to climate change which is easy, just re open the nuclear power plants...
I need a bunch of rubber for the poor Girl Scout girls in Russia.. they need help and I am down!
Haha yes I remember that awful shortage of garden gnomes ... still not sure how we survived!
The gnome apocalypse of 2020 was hell.
I'm still trying to get rid of 11,000 medium sized concrete gnomes which I hoarded back then.
"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."
...and now you're having puppies. 🤣
Just use polyethylene.
Sheep skin
I've heard of a guy using freakin plastic wrap before lol like what the hell is that gonna do for anything!!
@@mattbanks3517 A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?
manufactures: we have enough rubber
also manufactures: Increase tyre prices due to shortage of natural rubber
Ain't that a b/tch huh
Best part is 99.99999% of rubber is synthetic, derived from oil.
@@sunnohh don't talk if you haven't got a clue....
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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That's bs
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.
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.
Another created shortage to increase prices. “Pay NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!”
To hell with the money what about the environment
@@dewmontain123 id love to hear your opinion on "what about the environment?" What exactly do you mean?
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.
Stop it with that truth nonsense before your reported! Lol
@@davids4063 Thanks Greta 😂
Crude oil is the principal raw material in synthetic rubber. Approximately 70% of all rubber used today is synthetic.
Yes but only naturaly rubber can take the preasure of an airplane landing.. No rubber No air travel....
Not in a tire. Only the inner liner is synthetic. Less than 5%
@@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.
100% Correct!
Well they have different material property
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.
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.
@@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.
It's the same with BANANAS a fungus is staring to destroy plants.
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!
Yeah that just means they have to change cultivars again.that's OK there's lots tastier varietals than Cavendish!
Gnome shortage ? That explains why i haven't seen a Travelocity ads in a while .
He got kidnapped by scalpers
Well, with many countries still having restrictions, that gnome can't roam.
...gnomes were already pretty damn short.
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.
@@tenshi.kurama Change that to 'Somali pirates' and you've got the next big Tom Hanks vehicle.
Wait, wait, go back. There is a gnome shortage?
Now this is what we need to be talking about.
That caught my eye also.
Can't wrap my head around it. Did tons of people go "oooh, pandemic ! Better stock up on *garden gnomes* ! ????
😂😂
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
my garden will NEVER be the same
I noticed nobody says anything about recycling the rubber tires they have now..
That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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?
@@deesmith8576 it makes me Wanda to also my friend
That's odd, prices of rubber here in the Philippines is still low. Some big shots got richer yet again.
Medium grade Goodyear tires here in USA are $100 each with installation costs.
@@Titus357 I paid 50 dollars. Maybe they lowered the price because they took my old tire.
"Shipping increase": using more tires.
Everyone working from home not driving: Not calculated.
SRT owners : hold my tires
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.
Manufactured scarcity pays fat at the top.
@@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.
People staying home will actually create a surplus. Passenger car tires are getting much, much less wear.
I stop using rubbers a long time ago, so I'm doing my part
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What’s your system? Pulling out? Mine is using the rear. 😂 We are doing our part! ❤️
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@@LERJizz aluminum foil….
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.
Nuclear power is the way to go. Don't worry about lithium. Worry about the focus on solar when nuclear has far more power.
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?
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.
@@theredacted3805 Better for the environment. Makes cities more liveable due to decreased noise pollution.
@@uioplkhj Electric vehicles are now mandated to make noise.
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!
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I cut mine in half, so I only use half the amount each time. Conserve people, conserve. Plus the bottom half feels better.
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?
Eat zee bugs, libve in zee pod.
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
I worked at a tire warehouse during COVID 2020 we couldn’t keep tires and also we had supply chain issues to boot
Thinking like that is unacceptable comrade!
Latex from dandelions? I'll be a billionaire. That will show my neighbors.
Milkweed plants - bigger and more latex.
@@DBrentWalton Poinsettia can grow into Tree-size plants! :)
🤣🤣🤣 love it !!!
Nice!!
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.
In a perfect world you would think someone would have come up with a way to recycle old tires into new new tires
Someone should figure out how to turn ash into wood again too. The chemistry just isn’t there.
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
It’s amazing how everything is now in a shortage. 🤔
Perhaps it’s because the earth can only sustain 4.9 billion humans without encountering shortages
Shows how fragile the economy is.
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?
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.
Do economist think rubber has an elastic demand? ...sorry couldn't resist the pun :-)
stretching the supply chain to the limit.
It'll snap back so there's no need for all this tension.
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I dont give then a dime either, more like $5
Starbucks overrated, I prefer a local cafe run by my friend
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@@philnightjar1971 i agree with you but we all get to spend our $$ where we want to
or amazon walmart staples home depot etc...
Had no idea rubber grew on trees
Growing crops of Dandelions in vertical, high-tech, indoor farms. Sounds normal for these abnormal times.
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.
The woman selling the "shock value" to a supply shortage. Is the same lady "inventing" her own rubber process. 🤔
Politics at it's finest 😉
She'll have an ipo next week
Rubber: comes from a plant
Lady: I’ve found a way to make rubber from plants!
Also asks for 1 billion dollars like it's nothing.
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 rubber you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks back to you.
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!!
@@johnarmenta2199 Just do it in a well ventilated area so you don't blow your own mind!
I like how they say some items needs natural rubber, but only list one, and it's airplane tires. Where's the apocalypses.
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?
@@RichRich1955 Do you drive airplanes to work?
I'm doing my part to conserve rubber, no condoms!
*being celibate
Thank god we aren't going to lose our rubber ducks.
I was relieved when I heard that part
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.
Rubber is not a microchip. It ages in storage and looses properties.
@@HermannTheGreat O totally like a Ceo would be browsing a CZcams comment section. 🤪
Michelin tires at the wholesale level up 20% ! Prices will go up now everything!
@@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?
Judging by how much they care about their customers, its going to be a big shortage folks
America: you keep cutting down trees! I’m going to sanction you!
Also America: I need your rubber!
Has anyone else notice that lately "news" reports are done in a gravely sounding condescending voice that puts a slight emphasis on the last word in a sentence?
Yes. A lot of the time if the news wants you to think a certain way about something, they’ll deliver the message to you a certain way
Ahhh I remember the toilet roll shortage. That was stupid...
I dont even use TP, I have a TOTO Automatic Toilet.
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.
I thought that was so selfish of people. I thankfully do my part by using one to three squares per use.
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.
Stupid? No. It got me to buy my ButtBlaster 3000.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Whenever I watch how things are made, I just wonder, who decides to tap a tree and says, this could be a thing
Indians from Amazon Forest
2-6 dollars a day? When the rubber market is worth 68 billion a year?
Yea it’s like pork it does not go to the farmers
Not much different than any other industry. Like smartphones.
It’s all relative to the cost of living to where you live.
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.
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.
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
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.
To try and distract you from looking inwards
Would you have watched the video if it was titled "Looming rubber shortage"?
Like always: pay the farmers a fair price for their product, let them farm within the limits nature sets, and you fix the problem.
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!
@@Whiteboykun I am out there! Offfering the solution on CZcams for every one to see! Now all you have to do my disciple is to go out in the world and implement my teachings!
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
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.
both have their own unique properties and corresponding uses
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 !
“Rubber from plants!” Sooooo are we saying that the trees that produce natural rubber aren’t plants?
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.
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 !
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.
If dandelions produce laxtex, I could supply North America.
@@peterpan4038 thats why they're crap
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.
Finally an intelligent comment, exactly correct!!!
"In one ear and out the rubber."
Hopefully, Rubber will “bounce back” without having the farmers “stretch “ even further !
if only the manufacturer play it fair. then our farmer won't experience the disappointment in rubber plant industry
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.
@@faithandhope6 Unfortunately,, “commodities “ are manipulated by greedy traders.
Perhaps growers could form a large co-op ? It is another corrupt economic system !
Time to start shredding and recycling old tires on a grand scale.
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.
I have some old tires, think I'll go clean out my garage, and maybe get some cash from the tire recyclers
@@bigchuckyinkentucky6267 How about condoms? maybe have a recycling program for them? Those aren't vulcanized! (at least MINE aren't) :)
@@rossjudd6049 I don't even want to think about it. 🤮
Once vulcanized it changes it structure and can not be reused for that purpose.
So, the toilet paper people are going to be buying tires.
I see a connection and it’s called skid marks.
Now you have to live with that image in your mind.
If we are running short of rubber. WHY are there mountains of illegally dumped tires in every major state??
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.
I always assumed that car tires were mostly synthetic rubber. Guess you just can't beat the real thing sometimes
Race cars use Tires made from Orange Oil.
There is a free documentary on CZcams about tires. And you are correct there is not much latex in cheap tires.
They got tired of using the fake stuff.
It'a a supply/demand thing. When the price of natural rubber rises, synthetic rubber takes over. Apocalypse deferred!
I see. The "rubber apocalypse" lady is promoting her own start up.
Good comment!!!
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.
This is crap
This has already been done in the 1930s to 50s, however, productivity per acre couldn't compete with rubber trees.
ITS PLANT BASED THOUGH!!! Never mind that rubber trees also are plants?
Others have made the point there is no natural rubber in most tires. What we frequently call rubber, is actually an elastrometric petroleum polymer
There is entire junkyards full of old tires. Are they not recyclable?
Millions of square feet of abandoned factories sitting in the rust belt - why can't they be repurposed?
Other then lack of skilled workers, government taxation and over regulation is why most factories are abandoned.
Cheaper in china
🏭 ? 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? 🤔
@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.
@@DavidLLambertmobile how did that work?
instead depending on production, we should find an effective and efficient ways to recycle and reuse those rubber waste
Perhaps expedience of necessity will eventually bring that realization, but, it seems many will only get their dragging holes into their rubber soles.
you do know they have tire recycling plants these people just didnt bother doing the research
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.
Very informative. I must also add, though, that it's really up to the farmer, who is utterly familiar with the rubber tree's natural growth cycle, to know better and plant new trees, even when it doesn't look like it's worth it, and/or when it's contrary to the current business cycle. That farmer by now should know there will be indeed ongoing demand for rubber. There's no going back from that.
When you are dirt poor, though, you cannot really plant trees for the demand in five years. What they need is a futures market, to help stabilize prices.
"it's bouncing back quite well" LOL
Most 'rubber' isn't even rubber. It's made from petroleum, OIL.
Synthetic rubber might be made from oil not natural rubber.
you don't know what you you don't know
@@edwardneuman6061 Correct, real rubber comes from rubber tree sap.
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.
@@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?
Market will rebalance, rudder product will be more expensive for a while until things stabilize. No apocalypse.
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.
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...
The fact that you showed a clip from the 50s ish just shows that we just repeat everything in cycles
Those were from the 40s during WWII
@@andy347 I was guessing but the point stands we are coming up on 100 years since it and we are just repeating it
I only, recently, learned that rubber is extracted from trees. I was shocked. I had no idea, i always though rubber was synthetic.
I watched a vice documentary about it and it's shocking the type of work they have to do. There was an 80 old couple that was tapping trees for it.
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.
Useless news
Unless those tree diseases are eradicated...the rubber tree apocalypse could be a very real thing
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!
Sanction US they use force labour in southeast Asia, evidence; just $2/day. This is missuse of power
@@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.
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.
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.
That's how first world wealth works.
@@adrianguggisberg3656 Yup.
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
We should be making rubber in the US but I guess that requires paying a living wage.
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.
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
US says " So,who is the biggest rubber supplier in the world ? looks like they need Freedom "
Pretty much
nah that's if they had oil
@@Kharmatos13 US already lowered their standards. Ha...
@@Kharmatos13 we wont need oil much longer. Gotta find another raw material to liberate.
@dtcanxz I don't know if you are American but if you are well done for your honesty!
“Supply chain security”, the fight is always over raw materials and unfinished goods.
It's a scarcity market. It's never been an honest supply and demand system.
@@deadwingdomain and these videos cause panic buying. Market manipulation on a global scale or honest reporting?
Now Tire was like about 80 bucks now it’s about $200 fire stone
The world, dependent on southeast Asian farmers, still refuses to pay them enough to prevent this catastrophe and doesn't offer assistance for the crop disease.
Seems the problem again are the shareholders and their executive henchmen. Go shareholder capitalism 🙄
Its not that simple and not how markets works!
The word "apocalypse" gets used three times a week. I think we've wandered away from the original meaning of the word 😆
dont forget "surge"
Doom and gloom sells apparently.
The original meaning of the word is "drawing aside the curtain" to show the future. Words change.
@@gadaadhoon Maybe:
"I think we've wandered away from the American fundamentalist Christian meaning of the word, circa 1985."
@@TotallyNotRedneckYall Did you just make fun of yourself? LOL! If there were more people able to do that our society would be a lot more stable.
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
north american's call breadfruits bannanas right?
Jackfruit too and it can be grown in the subtropics.
@@davedrewett2196 we call Jackfruit breadnut a good source of sap
Professor, come to my property to get free dandelions! I've always got the weed all over my lawn of 1 acre! 🤣
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.