Okay, Just found out they going to use fluorocarbon resins in E-vehicles and batteries more and more. So the direction we heading I am almost sure that we going to have higher prices on fluorocarbon lines and even shortage by next couple years.

 

https://www.daikinchemicals.com/solutions/industries/automotive.html

4 minutes ago, ATA said:

 I am almost sure that we going to have higher prices on ...

I'm going to go out on a limb and agree

Just when you can't hate E cars anymore lol 

2 hours ago, ATA said:

So the direction we heading I am almost sure that we going to have higher prices on fluorocarbon lines

@Catt's going to be heartbroken.?

You guys know how to fix this. That's all I will say.

I hope it makes better batteries than it does fishing line. 

Mono and copoly lines do everything that FC lines do.   

Better things to worry about. Like, do I get two breakfast sandwiches or one breakfast sandwich and grits and eggs on the way to the lake in the morning.?

1 hour ago, GreenPig said:

Better things to worry about. Like, do I get two breakfast sandwiches or one breakfast sandwich and grits and eggs on the way to the lake in the morning.?

go with the grits!!

5 hours ago, GreenPig said:

Better things to worry about. Like, do I get two breakfast sandwiches or one breakfast sandwich and grits and eggs on the way to the lake in the morning.?

 

4 hours ago, padon said:

go with the grits!!

18 hours ago, PhishLI said:

@Catt's going to be heartbroken.?

 

 

Well...get your line orders in now, boys and girls.

 What will happen if fluorocarbon fishing line costs $100 a spool?   Anglers will go back to using mono and no one will notice any difference.  ?

12 hours ago, Kdizzle said:

Mono and copoly lines do everything

Like that crazy girlfriend in college...

52 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

Like that crazy girlfriend in college...

...and just like fluorocarbon, she took years off my life.

1 hour ago, Captain Phil said:

 What will happen if fluorocarbon fishing line costs $100 a spool?   Anglers will go back to using mono and no one will notice any difference.  ?

Oh there’s a difference. You can feel it right away, some people love it some don’t 

 

so far my description of floro is like using a tuned banjo string . 

22 hours ago, ATA said:

Okay, Just found out they going to use fluorocarbon resins in E-vehicles and batteries more and more. So the direction we heading I am almost sure that we going to have higher prices on fluorocarbon lines and even shortage by next couple years.

 

https://www.daikinchemicals.com/solutions/industries/automotive.html

Or it could have the opposite effect.  If fluorocarbon has more uses with higher profit margins, then there will be more factories making it.  It might increase the world's supply of polyvinylidene fluoride pellets and suppress prices.  The fishing market isn't very big compared to the automobile market.  

9 minutes ago, Bankc said:

Or it could have the opposite effect.  If fluorocarbon has more uses with higher profit margins, then there will be more factories making it.  It might increase the world's supply of polyvinylidene fluoride pellets and suppress prices.  The fishing market isn't very big compared to the automobile market.  

Yeah, fishing line is a very small % of the raw materials, has a very healthy margin, and elastic demand, so I doubt it will have a negative (from the consumer's view point) impact on the price or availability of fluoro fishing lines. 

Based on the cited article, gas cars already use fluorocarbon.  If excess incremental demand is met with additional supply then price increases aren’t inevitable.  Basic MicroEcon 101 stuff. Sometimes, it’s best just to wait and see.  In addition, as noted by others above, there currently are reasonable substitutes available, so no need for panic buying.

22 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Just when you can't hate E cars anymore lol 

I just read a tweet that says they are the greatest thing ever...  

1 hour ago, Captain Phil said:

 What will happen if fluorocarbon fishing line costs $100 a spool?   Anglers will go back to using mono and no one will notice any difference.  ?

I am paying more then a hundred dollars a spool. 1000 yrd spool of 12# Diawa Samurai is 120.00.  1000 yrds of Seaguar Invisx is 106.00. A 1000 yrd spool of 12# Tatsu is 241.00 on TW.

 

I do get a lot of changes out of a spool though.

FM

 

I believe its liquid fluoro like whats used in medical applications? I might be wrong but I think it's unrelated to fishing line and doubt fishing line makes up a large volume of overall fluoro use

48 minutes ago, QED said:

so no need for panic buying.

When Americans hear that sentence 

46 minutes ago, Fishingmickey said:

I am paying more then a hundred dollars a spool. 1000 yrd spool of 12# Diawa Samurai is 120.00.  1000 yrds of Seaguar Invisx is 106.00. A 1000 yrd spool of 12# Tatsu is 241.00 on TW.

 

I do get a lot of changes out of a spool though.

FM

 

I've had "dancers" light Cuban cigars with 100 dollar bills, but I was much younger and very drunk, what's your excuse?...  

dang..I dont thing I have ever tried a cuban cigar.