American houses aren't really built from "wood" as in directly from trees - they are build from "engineered wood" like fiberboard and particleboard. That's a l

American houses aren't really built from "wood" as in directly from trees - they are build from "engineered wood" like fiberboard and particleboard. That's a lot of industrial processing with a lot of oil-based glues and so on. By weight, the houses are almost more oil than wood. Here's an enlightening chapter of "Well there's your problem" podcast about this with actual civil engineers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVodkE47aLw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVodkE47aLw