Goodyear to phase out petroleum-based
tires with soybeans by 2040
Daily Record (Wooster, OH),
by
Bryce Buyakie
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
5/17/2021 2:33:27 PM
For decades engineers have used petroleum to make everyday products. It's still commonly used in everything from rubbers and plastics to chemicals and asphalt.
But this useful product comes from crude oil, which is often criticized by activists and experts as harmful to the environment, citing oil spills and fracking incidents.
Recent studies from the last decade have shown that petroleum isn't as efficient as some once thought. Now, companies, engineers and scientists aim to replace it with plant-based oils, specifically soybeans.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. recently announced its goal to replace all petroleum-based products with soybean oil by 2040.
So in addition to burning food, we’re not going to make tires out of it?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Flagstone 5/17/2021 2:43:43 PM (No. 788517)
HAHA, People need to read up what happened to wiring harnesses, like Toyota, when they switched to plant based oils for the insulation. Hint - rats love them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
dst4life 5/17/2021 2:45:07 PM (No. 788518)
Enviro-whackos want to take our food and use it for fuel and tires. Corn for ethanol. Soybeans for tires. They also want to take away red meat and make us eat bugs.
Their goal is NOT protecting the environment. It's to starve people. After all, many people need to die to save the planet. But the elites will eat just fine.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/17/2021 2:46:59 PM (No. 788520)
Whoopie dee doo da.
I hope you go broke.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/17/2021 2:49:31 PM (No. 788523)
Inflate them with salad dressing.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kono 5/17/2021 2:50:03 PM (No. 788524)
Vegetable oil... Won't that make them orders of magnitude more biodegradable? How will that affect performance and structural integrity? I wouldn't have much confidence in their strength or durability as I do for the petroleum-based tires on the market today.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/17/2021 3:04:12 PM (No. 788538)
Any thing any corp says they will do 20 years from now is simple BS.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 5/17/2021 3:07:40 PM (No. 788541)
Oh my Dad would be tremendously upset if he were still alive to hear this. He worked 25+ yrs for Goodyear. Good company until they started getting politically correct. That was about the time he decided to retire. Sounds like it has really gone downhill from there.
No more Goodyear tires for this family...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SALady 5/17/2021 3:09:17 PM (No. 788543)
Goodyear, just a friendly hint: Go woke, go broke!!!!
Lie-berals love to tell us that there isn't enough food being produced to sustain all the people on Earth. Then they love to tell us that we should use food to make things currently made with oil because we need to save the planet. Logic and consistency are two things you can never accuse a lie-beral of!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/17/2021 3:19:45 PM (No. 788551)
Goodyear hasn't made any money in years. It is going to get worse.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 5/17/2021 3:23:29 PM (No. 788552)
They're gonna start making rubber out of plants now? How original.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/17/2021 3:27:40 PM (No. 788554)
Greta Thunberg should be CEO by then.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
spacer 5/17/2021 3:29:59 PM (No. 788556)
When crap hits the fan a family of 4 could live off four SUV tires for about 2 weeks. Being it's soybeans you don't need to even nuke em.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Sully 5/17/2021 3:44:05 PM (No. 788569)
#2 Bingo! Any little animal will find them irresistible. SUV's have had their entire wiring harnesses destroyed due to mice snacking on soy based wire insulation.
I had to buy special mouse proof tape when I replaced the wiring harness on my dump trailer.
But IDC what Goodyear uses. The market will settle that for us. If someone else's tires are better/cheaper, Goodyear will have a very badyear.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 5/17/2021 3:57:39 PM (No. 788579)
Since rodents will probably start munching on the tires, do feral cats also come with the purchase of Goodyear tires?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 5/17/2021 4:00:27 PM (No. 788584)
Another genius idea. Sure, its not the Nazi "Buna rubber" but its a nice second. And look how economical it is. We can now take cheap food and make it into crummy tires. Just like corn and gasoline. Man, we should have never discovered petroleum and just stuck with wind and food products. Its just so easy and cheap, right?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/17/2021 4:07:45 PM (No. 788593)
Trying to picture a tire tree. And of course we'll need more "immigrants" to do the pickin'.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 5/17/2021 4:08:29 PM (No. 788595)
Gonna be some really crummy tires, I'll bet. So, making tires out of animal feed, and making damned ethanol to mess up the fuel from corn, people and animal feed.
Bad, bad ideas.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Geoman 5/17/2021 4:32:32 PM (No. 788623)
Let me know when soybean farmers can lubricate and power their tractors and deliver their products to market without hydrocarbons. Besides, we saw how panicky the east coast leftists got when the pipeline feeding their own oversized hydrocarbon habits had a service interruption. Biden went so far as to suspend certain environmental regulations to ensure the flow of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel to the Atlantic seaboard states, particularly in the northeast. Stupid hypocrites are really the worst kind.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chumley 5/17/2021 4:45:02 PM (No. 788631)
Mt dad worked for Goodyear for 40+ years so I felt like it was loyalty to buy their tires for my Jeep. Ended up replacing all four within a year because they went flat as soon as I left the road. Never again.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
paral04 5/17/2021 5:35:49 PM (No. 788671)
why not go back to using rubber, it is plant based, right?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/17/2021 5:51:59 PM (No. 788679)
Don't worry about it. All vehicles will be electric powered and won't go far nor fast. At least together.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
hershey 5/17/2021 5:54:14 PM (No. 788682)
Hey great idea...then when we don't have any gas to run our cars to get to the grocery we can eat the tires....what a bunch of wankers..
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
swarfer 5/17/2021 5:56:22 PM (No. 788683)
Henry Ford experimented with peanut shell waste in the '20s as well as soybean plastics in the '40s. George Washington Carver's recycling peanut shells was all the rage at one time. This is probably more an extension of WOKE by the union to evoke Carver as the first environmentalist. In reality he wanted to find a use for a worthless product to help farmers.
However you look at it, tires are not being made with the best material available, natural rubber. The original eco material is simply tool expensive and would require vast agricultural acreage to supply the world. Soybean oil tires are likely to end up the same way.
It is never a good idea to use farmland for any other purpose than food. People have to eat, they can always walk. It reminds me of Roosevelt's policy of pouring out milk and plowing under crops to solve an economic problem - probably the most horrendous government policy of all time. Tires are not the problem, its burning fossil fuel. Goodyear is intending to solve a problem it can't with soybean oil tires. It would be better to use oil from human waste, but I guess tires already smell bad enough.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
coldoc 5/17/2021 6:51:42 PM (No. 788723)
The tire dealer near fairbanks had an impressive pile of dead goodyears from rvs. My 4 added to the pile. Never again.
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Whose brilliant idea was this ? AOC ? Back in the dark ages, we grew soybeans. Never ever ate them. We sold them along with tobacco to the Chinese. Now look at US.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
jkb 5/18/2021 9:09:16 AM (No. 789239)
#2 is spot on. My Honda gas line was eaten through by squirrels. $400 repair. These people are idiots.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/18/2021 9:20:52 PM (No. 789966)
OK boys and girls..... answer me this:
How much petroleum get used to
-manufacture the fertilizer
-provide the seed
-prepare the soil
-plant the seed
-fertilize the plants
-harvest the soybeans
-transport and process the soybeans
.... to make enough 'soybean rubber' for one tire of a given size (pick any common size)?
How does this compare to the amount of petroleum needed to make one 'petroleum rubber' tire of the same size?
My understanding, some years ago, was that it required more than a gallon of Diesel fuel to produce one gallon of corn-based alcohol..... and the gallon of Diesel had more useable energy than the gallon of alcohol. Has that situation changed?
Anyone who knows the answer, please chip in!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
franq 5/19/2021 6:05:21 AM (No. 790158)
In related news, McDonald's and Burger King announced they will make their burger meat from rubber, sometime around 2041.
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