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Posted on 10/20/2021 2:00:56 PM PDT by Pilsner
A critical element in everything from engines to bodies is in short supply
... Essentially, you can’t make cars without aluminum. You can’t work with aluminum without using magnesium. And as of December, you may not be able to work with magnesium much — if at all.
85% of the world’s supply comes from ... China, ... (which) just ordered 35 of its 50 production facilities to shut down. The remaining 15 have been told to scale back operations by half, leaving production drastically reduced.
(Excerpt) Read more at jalopnik.com ...
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Ping.
I bet you wealthy leftists won’t have a problem.
being dependent on the Communist Chinese dictatorship won’t be any better than when we were dependent on the Saudi Arabian dictatorship
it is essential for our national security and yes, economic well-being, to be as self-sufficient as possible in all strategic commodities ... and to diversify our suppliers as much as possible for the rest.
Drive old/older cars and trucks.
They’re cool.You can work on them yourself ( much older cars & trucks!)
Who needs all the hi tech bell whistles and computer everything? The poor little XYZ’z will suffer....
Sounds like magnesium parts at the pick a part are gonna get pillaged by scrappers.
I got a dumb question since I’m hearing stories like this all over the place. If if it isn’t material shortages, it’s labour shortages or something with the infrastructure has fallen down and can’t get up..... Why are real estate and the stock market rolling along?
The auto industry is never coming back.
It’s as if this were part of their plan all along.
Wow. This means the stock market will go up.
Yes, you’ll just have to do with out that treadmill and a new car. You spoiled ingrate American. /sarcasm
The doofuses forget that businesses make money selling cars and treadmills. It isn’t the spoiled whiny American consumer who is hurt. A lot of people are employed in the process of selling a car.
Of course, Democrats don’t understand business and the supply chain and how they work. The only understand taxes that can be extracted from businesses. They know that process very well.
My first car had no aluminum or magnesium.
Right now used cars and pickups are really pricey.
I read a story that said the best used deals are on small SUVs with stick shift because few people can drive them so the pool of potential buyers is small.
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Illegals to replace American workers who won’t work (supposedly-who trusts the news?).
Foreign medical personal who consent to be vaxxed to replace ours that refuse to be an experiment.
Chinese imports to replace American made vehicles
I can see a raft of consequences for the chaos Biden and his traitors are stirring.
Not long ago there was ZERO aluminum in cars. Then the Green Kooks pushed mileage standards and aluminum content soared. No problem because of all the aluminum production in the Northwest USA with cheap hydro power, right? Nope, shut that down and make us and captive to China.
The USA is completely governed by short-sighted idiots.
Assets. Folks are buying assets.
I believe floods affected most mines—not power, so the author may be a bit out to lunch.
You mean with all-steel cars?
Might actually become worthwhile to recycle aluminum.
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