To further add on to other commentators, wooden utility poles are cheap in North America and expensive in lots of places in Europe. Wooden utility poles are mad

To further add on to other commentators, wooden utility poles are cheap in North America and expensive in lots of places in Europe. Wooden utility poles are made of a solid trunk, not smaller pieces of wood that have been attached together. North America has lots of long straight pine trees to build utility poles out of. European forests have lots of thin or bendy trees which don't make good utility poles. Much of Europe has been denuded of its natural forests.