Looking for plywood? - try looking in Iraq

[donsu]

http://newsobserver.com/front/digest/story/2817631p-2604114c.html

Plywood prices spiral upward
Big military order bolsters demand

A huge military order for plywood apparently bound for the Middle East has driven already-lofty prices to record heights and could add thousands of dollars to the cost of new homes.

Some types of plywood cost twice what they did just six weeks ago, said Kristian Kankelfritz at Fitch Lumber and Hardware in Chapel Hill. "Some people don't like it, but it's going to be about the same no matter where they go," he said.

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Several plywood factories have closed, reducing supply. Also, this year's wet weather has made it hard to get logs out of the woods, and some mills closed briefly for lack of raw material. The strong housing market, meanwhile, kept demand high.

Then, just as experts thought prices had peaked, the military began ordering wood in early August. The government got enough plywood to fill about 300 railroad cars and briefly tie up production at several factories.
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NOTE THIS: "The only thing missing this year is a hurricane threatening a major metro area," Dawson said. "If that were to happen sometime in the next six weeks, it could be a major market influence."

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"Within days, I saw pictures on CNN of guard towers and holding cells made out of Southern pine plywood," he said.


So a hurricane is coming - the Natl. Guard and plywood are in Iraq.

So now we know why the gang set fire to the forest. Needed that salvage logging to make plywood. Wonder how much money plywood makers gave Smirk?

[E_Zapata]

1. in 2 weeks we demolished two countries

almost 300 million people (if they aren't among the DEAD) have been compromised in the long, long-run.

Splendid. I am wow'd.

[Cush]

2. Same w/ National Guard

many in the area are deployed in Iraq, so we can't can't on a lot of help from them

[Parche]

3. Pattern starting

First smirk bush was buying millions of barrels of oil for the
strategery oil reserve, causing massive increases in gas prices
now they are buying up plywood at a time when there are low supplies,
whats next to jack up the prices for his buddies?

[OldSoldier]

5. Food

Expect wheat prices to rise, then sweeteners, followed by supplies of important vegetables such as root crops. (Question: do you consider corn to be a vegetable or a grain? Because no matter which way you go, it's rising too.) And of course meat.

Y'see, food is the perfect next target. You don't have to drive, you don't have to build but you must eat.

After food? I expect Shrub to figure out the Sudan is a sponsor of terra and to halt imports of Sudanese products (of which there is one--gum acacia) and then impose government rationing of the remaining supply of gum acacia. You can't print without gum acacia, and if Bush allocates it only to publishers who are involved in the unfettered worship of His Shrubness, he can eliminate the last vestiges of the Liberal Media. This chemical is also used by soft drink manufacturers, and by tying campaign contributions and promotion of Shrub on the cans to supplies of gum acacia, he can eliminate beverage-industry contributions to the Democratic Party. Would he do it? Oh hell yes. And it's not like people cut off from Sudanese gum acacia can go somewhere else--the Sudan is where it comes from.

[donsu]

7. good grief - I didn't know that

thanks for the info. as an example of food prices: head lettuce is going for $2 a head. $2 dollars! I asked the produce guy if they sold many heads a day at that price and he said yes, all of them.

Food prices are creeping up so softly we tend to not be aware of it.

[donsu]

4. is VA, MD, DC, etc. short on plywood?

nt

[StopTheMorans]

6. my Dad

a general contractor, was just telling me last night how the price of plywood has doubled for him, and how he feels it will cut back on the amount of work he can get. Good work Shrub :eyes: