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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Friday, May 13, 2011 at 13:27:51 :

In Reply to: Re: we are not that guilty posted by Marty [174.7.23.230] on Friday, May 13, 2011 at 12:39:23 :

When I lived in Everett, I watched many trainloads of oak logs from somewhere back east being loaded on ships for transport to China. Then I could go down to Home Depot and buy a genuine solid oak toilet seat, made in China. Presumably they sell the same products in their east coast stores. Thanks to cheap oil, it was cheaper to cut down oak trees in Ohio or Pennsylvania, load the raw logs into open-top gondola cars on a train, haul them to Everett, load them onto a ship, ship them to China, mill them into lumber there, make the lumber into toilet seats, ship the finished products back to Seattle, Tacoma, or Long Beach, off-load the containers onto a truck or train, and haul them to stores all over the US, than to have Americans make oak trees into toilet seats somewhere close to where the oak trees grow. As long as transportation is cheap and there are people willing to work for next to nothing somewhere in the world, I think we're stuck with this. The US still exports stuff, but it's mostly raw materials and commodities these days.



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