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Originally Posted by JL8Jeff
China is buying all the scrap steel they can get so the price for any company here in the US that needs it to build stuff like exhaust systems has gone up. There's a major global change going on and nobody in this country is prepared to deal with it.
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Yea, it all started about 15 years ago when China began making their own steel and literally over night the entire US steel industry went out of business, because companies would rather pay half price for crappy steel , than pay full price for quality US steel and support our own economy. My mother's entire side of the family going back six generations were all steel workers in the mill along the Ohio Valley, and every town there now is a ghost town. I went back two years ago and too ka bunch of pics. I'll find em and post em up. Very depressing to see such a marvel of engineering and physical sign of progress, lay dormant.