Long term this question is down to a few options. You either find a source of new tires through salvage or you find a source for rubber and start cottage industries to retread tires.
With all this talk about oil, I think it will be the smaller things that will stop the mechanized soceity that we live in today. The spare parts for crucial, seemingly insignificant now, systems, the highly specialized production of those parts and the foreign companies we deal with to get them.
Perhaps an trade route to Sri Lanka or Malaysia for new tires in exchange for oil?
I believe once rubber is hardened, it cant be melted down to it pure liquid state again...
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