... and now with this Ebola outbreak getting ready to swing into high gear probably affecting many of the "slogging-in-the-dirty-mudholes" Ma & Pop illegal miners supplying/swiping unrefined cobalt for China through their backdoor brokers, I think these shadowy untraceable Chinese brokers are soon going to be reduced to buying from (and muscling) the few remaining still-healthy legitimate cobalt miners with clean facilities and medical aid stations on their site thus putting a further strain on their previous commitments to Toyota, BMW etal.
Elon, we hear you and can sympathize with you, but you should have been here a year ago locking up your cobalt needs for the next 3 years minimum.