Ford CEO says Eare Earths Shortage Forced it to Shut Factory

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Ford CEO Jim Farley said that a rare earth minerals shortage is hurting production ...

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 04:32 PM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink

China's dominance in rare earths minerals can cause a shortage for US consumers in everything from cars to TV remotes.[image or embed]
-- Business Insider (@businessinsider.com) Jun 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM

Comments

Let them eat tacos!

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-14 04:26 PM

Xi has stinky over a barrel.

www.reuters.com

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-15 02:13 PM

The Ukrainian province of Donbas rare Earth mineral deposits in an area that crosses the border with Russia but apparently, Putin wanted all of it for Russia and remember how his excuses for the invasion have changed from "Nazis running Ukraine" to "Ukrainians persecuting Russian speakers" and other lies but now the truth is leaking. Putin wants all of the territory where the rare Earth minerals are.

#3 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-15 05:46 PM

Zelensky has agreed to sell those minerals to the U.S. which will hopefully get Ford's factory back running again.

#4 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-15 05:48 PM

@#2 ... Xi has stinky over a barrel. ...

Yup.

China's control of rare earth minerals has caused Pres trump to back-track, tail between his legs, from his ~most beautiful tariffs.~

And in the apparent ~framework~ negotiated (a framework that only puts things back to a month or so ago in the negotiations) China seems to have agreed to only six-month contracts for exporting rare-earth minerals.

China Puts Six-Month Limit on Its Ease of Rare-Earth Export Licenses (June 11, 2025)
www.wsj.com

So, how can US CEOs who need rare-earth minerals put into place the multi-year strategies that they usually do for their wealthy shareholders?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-15 08:13 PM

OK, trying to post a graph ...