>We don’t make steel anymore?
Yet we make tractors, cranes, cars, steel buildings, interstates, bulldozers etc etc. Must we make the steel too or the economy dies? Obviously not.<
Tell it to these guys:
http://www.steeldynamics.com/
I didn’t really sign off on the whole “we don’t make steel anymore”. We may make a smaller percentage of our total usage than we did in the 50’s but we certainly make some. I can’t imagine being dependent on chinese steel to make our own tanks and aircraft carriers. It’s a strategic industry to our military even if chinese steel happened to better and/or cheaper, we don’t want to give those keys away.