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Written by Jim. From Kansas. on 2025-01-17 at 15:41

I just got an email from Menards urging contractors to buy lumber NOW, before tariffs drive the price up.

The Venn diagram of "People surprised by this" and "Trump voters" has a 99.2% overlap.

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Written by Kim Possible on 2025-01-17 at 15:47

@jimbush I don't think people realize that most of our construction materials are imported.

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Written by Jim. From Kansas. on 2025-01-17 at 15:57

@kimlockhartga Most of the contractors I've known are not big-pictire thinkers at all, but they all went through the supply chain breakdown during COVID that drove prices through the roof. You'd think they would have learned a little from that experience.

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Written by cy on 2025-01-17 at 17:23

Wait... lumber, specifically? Because lumber is a major US export. Are they talking about certain specialty woods? Because there's a cedar farm you can see from space just like 50 miles west of me.

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Written by Jim. From Kansas. on 2025-01-17 at 17:40

@cy 30% of the softwood lumber (like pine) used in the US comes from Canada. Most of that is used in construction.

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