AZ Nomad wrote:
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:30:20 -0500, George wrote:


SteveB wrote:
"clifto" wrote

I look forward to someone telling *why* they're so expensive. If anyone
has so far, I missed it.
Have you been to the store in the last year? EVERYTHING is getting
expensive.

Steve


For sure, and a lot of people may not realize why. Big box thinking
which resulted in gutting industry has enabled the next dominant world
power. China has been buying commodities (metals, oil, cement etc) like
mad and we need to compete with them.

It won't happen as long as we have environmental laws, they don't, and
we reward american companies who operate overseas to bypass the costs
of our environmental laws.


I didn't mean the overused and ridiculous "we need to compete with them
on price...". My comment regards that we need to compete with them on
the world market for commodities.