I saw them do it with oak


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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [72.47.153.112] on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 03:37:27 :

In Reply to: Re: That's just so wrong posted by Kaegi [98.247.164.246] on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 00:58:59 :

When I lived in Everett, I would see large trains of goldola cars filled with oak logs, all crooked and random lengths, presumably hauled all the way from the East coast somewhere, or at least the midwest. They'd load them on a ship for China, to show up later at the big-box stores as $20 solid-oak toilet seats and such. It's mind-boggling to me that it's cheaper to cut a tree in Ohio or Pennsylvania, haul it by train to Everett, load it on a ship for China, make it into lumber in a Chinese sawmill, make the lumber into toilet seats, cabinets, etc in China, load them all into containers, ship them back across the ocean, and sell them in the US, than it would be to simply set up woodworking factories in the places where the trees grow. But such is modern life.



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