Rare Earths ? US takes China to Task and Honda Recycles

China hordes, Honda circumvents with recycling. 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid ? $24,200 to start while sporting a 44 mpgUS city/highway/combined rating. Rare Earths in its motors and Li-Ion pack could possibly be used to create future Civic Hybrids someday. Yesterday the United States, EU and Japan requested the establishment of a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel to decide U.S. claims regarding China?s unfair export restraints on rare earths, tungsten and molybdenum.