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Shipping is so expensive, if you start shipping wood instead of sourcing it locally, then no wonder the price is going to go up even faster. What should have b
by Fiahil 5y ago
Shipping is so expensive, if you start shipping wood instead of sourcing it locally, then no wonder the price is going to go up even faster.
What should have been a good alternative here, is to prevent/taxe massively exports of wood from EU to NA. Prices would have stagnated near a peak in NA and we would have kept our wood supply at a moderated price, here.
- thedougd 5y agoOn the contrary, wood is shipped from the US to Europe for energy. This is Long Leaf Pine, one of the species commonly used for framing homes in the US. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article238395173.html https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article238395173.... https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/26/biomass-carbon-climate-politics-477620 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/26/biomass-ca...